Inversion of the Debye-Wolf diffraction integral using an eigenfunction representation of the electric fields in the focal region

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 4901-4917

  Foreman, Matthew R ^a   Sherif, Sherif S ^b   Munro, Peter R T ^a   Török, Peter ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FOCUSING; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

FOCAL REGION; NUMERICAL APERTURE LENS;

LENSES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ILLUMINATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHTING; MICROSCOPY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 41649104663     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.004901     Document Type: Article

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