Depth of field extension with spherical optics

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 12995-13004

  Mouroulis, Pantazis ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

DEPTH OF FIELD; DIFFRACTION LIMITED; LENS PERFORMANCE; MICROSCOPE OBJECTIVE; SPATIAL FREQUENCY; SPHERICAL ABERRATIONS; SPHERICAL OPTICS; WAVEFRONT ERRORS;

ASPHERICS;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LENSES; MICROSCOPY;

EID: 50049117492     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.012995     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. W. T. Welford, "Use of annular apertures to increase focal depth," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 50, 749-754 (1960).
2. S. Bagheri and B. Javidi, "Extension of depth of field using amplitude and phase modulation of the pupil function," Opt. Lett. 33, 757-759 (2008).
3. S. S. Sherif, W. T. Cathey and E. R. Dowski, "Phase plate to extend the depth of field of incoherent hybrid imaging systems," Appl. Opt. 43, 2709-2721 (2004).
4. E. Ben-Eliezer, E. Marom, N. Konforti, and Z. Zalevsky, "Experimental realization of an imaging system with an extended depth of field," Appl. Opt. 44, 2792-2798 (2005).
5. G. Mikula, Z. Jaroszewicz, A. Kolodziejczyk, K. Petelczyc, and M. Sypek, "Imaging with extended focal depth by means of lenses with radial and angular modulation," Opt. Express 15, 9184-9193 (2007), http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-15-15-9184.
6. N. George and W. Chi, "Extended depth of field using a logarithmic asphere," J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt. 5, S157-S163 (2003).
7. S. Sanyal and A. Ghosh, "High focal depth with quasi-bifocus birefringent lens," Appl. Opt. 39, 2321-2325 (2000).
8. Z. Zalevsky and S. Ben-Yaish, "Extended depth of focus imaging with birefringent plate," Opt. Express 15, 7204-7210 (2007), http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-15-12-7202.
9. G. Frédéric, "Advances in camera phone picture quality," Photonics Spectra, Nov. 2007, p. 50 (no archival literature references found)
10. E. R. Dowski and W. T. Cathey, "Extended depth of field through wave-front coding," Appl. Opt. 34, 1859-1866 (1995).
11. H. Bartelt, J. Ojeda-Castañeda and E. E. Sicre, "Misfocus tolerance seen by simple inspection of the ambiguity function," Appl. Opt. 23, 2693-2696 (1984).
12. S. C. Tucker, W. T. Cathey and E. R. Dowski Jr, "Extended depth of field and aberration control for inexpensive digital microscope systems," Opt. Express 4, 467-474 (1999). http://www.opticsexpress.org/abslract. cfm?uri=oe-4-11-467.
13. P. E. X. Silveira and R. Narayanswamy, "Signal-to-noise analysis of task-based imaging systems with defocus," Appl. Opt. 46, 2924-2934 (2006).
14. W. N. Charman and H. Whitefoot, "Pupil diameter and the depth-of-field of the human eye as measured by laser speckle," Optica Acta 24, 1211-1216 (1977).
15. S. Mezouari and A. R. Harvey, "Phase pupil functions for reduction of defocus and spherical aberrations," Opt. Lett. 28, 771-773 (2003).
16. V. N. Mahajan, Optical Imaging and Aberrations, Part II. Wave Diffraction Optics, Ch.2, SPIE Press, Bellingham, WA (2001).
17. P. Mouroulis and J. Macdonald, Geometrical Optics and Optical Design, p. 324, Oxford University Press, New York/Oxford (1997).