Optical performance at the thermodynamic limit with tailored imaging designs

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2327-2331

  Gordon, Jeffrey M ^a,b   Feuermann, Daniel ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b Merced   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; MIRRORS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; THERMODYNAMICS;

IMAGING REFLECTORS; LIGHT COLLIMATION; NONIMAGING OPTICS; OPTICAL SURFACES;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 17644411073     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.002327     Document Type: Article

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