Lens axicons in oblique illumination

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 312-318

  Burvall, Anna ^a   Kołacz, Katarzyna ^b   Goncharov, Alexander V ^a   Jaroszewicz, Zbigniew ^b,c   Dainty, Christopher ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED OPTICS   (Poland)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FOCUSING; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTIMIZATION;

CONE AXICON; LENS AXICONS; SINGLET LENS;

OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES;

EID: 33847272516     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.000312     Document Type: Article

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