Optical transfer function shaping and depth of focus by using a phase only filter

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1925-1931

  Elkind, Dina ^a   Zalevsky, Zeev ^a   Levy, Uriel ^a   Mendlovic, David ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR DETECTION; LASER BEAMS; LENSES; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHTING; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

MEAN SQUARE ERROR CRITERION;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 0041592497     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.001925     Document Type: Article

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