Relaxing the alignment and fabrication tolerances of thin annular folded imaging systems using wavefront coding

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 27, 2007, Pages 6751-6758

  Tremblay, Eric J ^a   Rutkowski, Joel ^b   Tamayo, Inga ^b   Silveira, Paulo E X ^b   Stack, Ronald A ^c   Morrison, Rick L ^c   Nelfeld, Mark A ^d   Fainman, Yeshaiyahu ^a   Ford, Joseph E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CDM Optics Inc   (United States)

^c Distant Focus Corporation   (United States)

^d University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FABRICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVEFRONTS;

ANNULAR FOLDED OPTICS; FABRICATION TOLERANCES; THIN ANNULAR FOLDED IMAGING SYSTEMS; WAVEFRONT CODING;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 36949022485     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.006751     Document Type: Article

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