Comparison of focusing properties of conventional and diffractive lenses

Optics Communications

Volumn 194, Issue 4-6, 2001, Pages 225-234

  Sergienko, N ^a   Dhayalan, V ^a   Stamnes, J J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Asymptotic methods; Diffractive lenses; Diffractive optics

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DIFFRACTION; FOCUSING; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WAVEFRONTS;

DIFFRACTIVE LENSES (DL);

OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES;

EID: 0035879460     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(01)01146-4     Document Type: Article

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