Assessment of an extended Nijboer-Zernike approach for the computation of optical point-spread functions

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 858-870

  Braat, Joseph ^a   Dirksen, Peter ^b   Janssen, Augustus J E M ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; BESSEL FUNCTIONS; CALIBRATION; INTEGRATION; LIGHTING;

POINT SPREAD FUNCTION (PSF);

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 0042154225     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.19.000858     Document Type: Article

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