Amplitude and phase filters for mitigation of defocus and third-order aberrations

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5249, Issue , 2004, Pages 238-248

  Mezouari, Samir ^a   Muyo, Gonzalo ^a   Harvey, Andrew R ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apodizer; Defocus; Depth of field; Pupil plane; Spherical and third order aberration; Wavefront coding

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL DESIGN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; WAVEFRONTS;

APODIZERS; DEFOCUS; DEPTH OF FIELD; PUPIL PLANE; SPHERICAL AND THIRD ORDER ABERRATION; WAVEFRONT CODING;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 1942521303     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.516542     Document Type: Conference Paper

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