Imaging phase objects with square-root, Foucault, and Hoffman real filters: A comparison

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 29, 2003, Pages 5816-5824

  Sagan, Arkadiusz ^a   Nowicki, Slawomir ^a   Buczynski, Ryszard ^a   Kowalczyk, Marek ^a   Szoplik, Tomasz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTEGRATION;

IMAGING PHASE OBJECTS;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 0142125372     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.005816     Document Type: Article

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