High performance thermal imaging with a singlet and pupil plane encoding

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5987, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Muyo, Gonzalo ^a   Harvey, Andrew R ^a   Singh, Amritpal ^b  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Saab Bofors Dynamics AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Noise amplification; Pupil plane encoding; Singlet; Wavefront coding

Indexed keywords

IMAGE CODING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

NOISE AMPLIFICATION; PUPIL PLANE ENCODING; SINGLET; WAVEFRONT CODING;

INFRARED IMAGING;

EID: 33644504151     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.634004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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