Improved field scanner incorporating parabolic optics. part 1: Simulation

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 4389-4396

  Sharafutdinova, Galiya ^a   Holdsworth, John ^a   Van Helden, Dirk ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINES; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; REFLECTION;

IMAGE SURFACE; OFF-AXIS PARABOLIC REFLECTORS; OPTICAL SOFTWARE; PARABOLIC REFLECTOR; ROTATIONAL AXIS; SCANNING SYSTEMS; SPHERICAL MIRROR; TWO PHOTON MICROSCOPY;

MIRRORS;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; PHOTON; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LASERS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHOTONS;

EID: 68749091068     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.004389     Document Type: Article

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