Design theories and performance limits of diffractive superresolution elements with the highest sidelobe suppressed

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 828-838

  Liu, Haitao ^a   Yan, Yingbai ^a   Jin, Guofan ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; IMAGE QUALITY; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTIMIZATION; THEOREM PROVING;

DIFFRACTIVE SUPERRESOLUTION ELEMENT; HYBRID TYPE FILTER;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 19944370147     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.22.000828     Document Type: Article

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