Enlarging the depth of focus by filtering in the phase-space domain

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 32, 2005, Pages 6833-6840

  Yang, Qingguo ^a   Liu, Liren ^a   Lang, Haitao ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL FILTERS;

APODIZERS; DESIGN PROCEDURES; FOCAL DEPTH; PHASE-SPACE DOMAIN;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 27944463640     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.006833     Document Type: Article

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