Axial imaging necessitates loss of lateral shift invariance

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 29, 2002, Pages 6055-6061

  Stein, Andy ^a   Barbastathis, George ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINOCULARS; INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTODETECTORS;

AXIAL IMAGING; SHIFT INVARIANCE;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0037057803     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.006055     Document Type: Article

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