Imaging with extended focal depth by means of lenses with radial and angular modulation

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 9184-9193

  Mikula G ^a   Jaroszewicz, Z ^b,c   Kolodziejczyk, A ^a   Petelczyc, K ^a   Sypek, M ^a  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED OPTICS   (Poland)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING SYSTEMS; LUMINANCE; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHASE MODULATION; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ANGULAR MODULATION; IMAGING PROPERTIES; LOGARITHMIC AXICON; NUMERICAL APERTURES; RADIAL MODULATION;

LENSES;

EID: 34547453933     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.009184     Document Type: Article

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