Engineering the Pupil Phase to Improve Image Quality

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5108, Issue , 2003, Pages 1-12

  Prasad, S ^a   Torgersen, T C ^b   Pauca, V P ^b   Plemmons, R J ^b   Van der Gracht, J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Holospex Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Fisher information; Focus extension; Image quality; Integrated imaging; Nonlinear optimization; Pupil phase mask; Strehi ratio; Wavefront coding

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DETECTORS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; MASKS;

PUPIL-PHASE MASKS; WAVEFRONT CODING;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 0344944722     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.487572     Document Type: Conference Paper

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