Computation of the disk of least confusion for conic mirrors

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 33, 2004, Pages 6080-6089

  Castro Ramos, Jorge ^a   De Ita Prieto, Oscar ^b   Silva Ortigoza, Gilberto ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ASTROFÍSICA   (Mexico)

^b BENEMÉRITA UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE PUEBLA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT SOURCES; MIRRORS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

CONIC REFLECTORS; DISK OF LEAST CONFUSION (DLC); GEOMETRIC IMAGING; OPTICAL AXIS;

GEOMETRICAL OPTICS;

EID: 10444274971     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.006080     Document Type: Article

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