High tolerance to spherical aberrations and defects of focus with a birefringent lens

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 22, 2002, Pages 4611-4619

  Sanyal, Sucharita ^a   Ghosh, Ajay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; BIREFRINGENCE; CRYSTAL DEFECTS; FOCUSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES;

BIREFRINGENT CRYSTALS; LINEAR POLARIZERS;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIREFRINGENCE; LENSES; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 0036667312     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.004611     Document Type: Article

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