Localization measures for high-aperture wavefields based on pupil moments

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Sheppard, Colin J R ^a   Alonso, Miguel A ^b   Moore, Nicole J ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Apodization; Beam shaping; Beams; Diffraction; Focusing; Super resolution

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN BEAMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION ESTIMATION; VISION;

APODIZATION; BEAM-SHAPING; LOCALIZATION MEASURES;

OPTICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 41249083278     PISSN: 14644258     EISSN: 17413567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4258/10/3/033001     Document Type: Article

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