Uncertainty principle applied to estimate focal spot dimensions

Optics Communications

Volumn 173, Issue 1-6, 2000, Pages 51-56

  Stelzer, E H K ^a   Grill, S ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODYNAMICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; FOURIER OPTICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; QUANTUM THEORY;

CIRCULAR APERTURE; FOCAL SPOT DIMENSIONS; UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE;

OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

EID: 0033874998     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(99)00644-6     Document Type: Article

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