High tolerance to off-axis aberrations with a birefringent lens

Optical Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1381-1386

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

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; BIREFRINGENCE; LENSES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

BIREFRINGENT LENS; OPTICAL IMAGING SCIENCE; UNIAXIAL CRYSTAL LENS;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 3342929696     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1737374     Document Type: Article

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