Optical processing with vortex-producing lenses

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1360-1367

  Crabtree, Karlton ^a   Davis, Jeffrey A ^a   Moreno, Ignacio ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDGE DETECTION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; LENSES; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; OPTICAL DEVICES;

ANGULAR PHASE PATTERN; OPTICAL VORTEX; VORTEX PRODUCING LENSES;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 1542306810     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.001360     Document Type: Article

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