Wavefront coding for aberration compensation in thermal imaging systems

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4442, Issue , 2001, Pages 34-42

  Mezouari, Samir ^a   Harvey, Andrew R ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Athermalization; Defocus aberration; Image gathering; IR imaging; Thermal imaging; Wavefront coding

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECODING; IMAGE CODING; INFRARED IMAGING; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; OPTIMIZATION; WAVEFRONTS;

WAVEFRONT CODING;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0035760035     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.449972     Document Type: Conference Paper

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