Resolution of aplanatic systems with various semiapertures, viewed from the two sides of the diffracting aperture

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2756-2763

  Guo, Hanming ^a   Chen, Jiabi ^a   Zhuang, Songlin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHANGHAI FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

APLANATIC SYSTEM; DIFFRACTING APERTURE; OPTICAL AXIS; VECTOR PLANE-WAVE SPECTRUM;

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 33845591776     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.23.002756     Document Type: Article

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