Imaging characteristics of a wavefront coding system with off-axis aberrations

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 28, 2006, Pages 7255-7263

  Lei, Hua ^a   Feng, Huajun ^a   Tao, Xiaoping ^a   Xu, Zhihai ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

ASTIGMATISM; IMAGING CHARACTERISTICS; OFF-AXIS ABERRATIONS;

WAVEFRONTS;

EID: 33750848424     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.007255     Document Type: Article

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