Frequency response characteristics of a birefringent lens

Optical Engineering

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 592-597

  Sanyal, Sucharita ^a   Ghosh, Ajay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

Author keywords

Birefringence; Optical imaging science; Optical transfer function; Polarization; Uniaxial crystal lens

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

BIREFRINGENT LENSES;

OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES;

EID: 0036504881     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1430420     Document Type: Article

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