Improving resolution in microscopic holography by computationally fusing multiple, obliquely illuminated object waves in the Fourier domain

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 827-833

  Price, Jeffery R ^a   Bingham, Philip R ^a   Thomas Jr , C E ^b  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Third Dimension Technologies LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FOURIER OPTICS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; IMAGE RESOLUTION; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; REFLECTION; WAVEFRONTS;

FOURIER DOMAIN; MACH ZENDER ARCHITECTURE; MICROSCOPIC HOLOGRAPHY; OBJECT WAVES;

HOLOGRAPHIC OPTICAL ELEMENTS;

EID: 33947510435     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.000827     Document Type: Article

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