Simple estimates for the effects of mid-spatial-frequency surface errors on image quality

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 13, 2000, Pages 2198-2209

  Youngworth, Richard N ^a   Stone, Bryan D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b Tropel Corporation ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; RAY TRACING;

SURFACE ERRORS;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0037816641     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.002198     Document Type: Article

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