Frequency response characteristics of a birefringent lens with off-axis aberrations

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 19, 2004, Pages 3838-3847

  Sanyal, Sucharita ^a   Kawata, Yoshimasa ^a   Ghosh, Ajay ^b   Mandal, Surajit ^b  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; BIREFRINGENCE; CRYSTALS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

INTENSITY POINT SPREAD FUNCTION (IPSF); MULTILENS SYSTEMS; RESIDUAL ABERRATION;

LENSES;

EID: 3142641408     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.003838     Document Type: Article

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