Highly flexible MTF measurement system for tunable micro lenses

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Zhang, Wei ^a,b   Aljasem, Khaled ^a   Zappe, Hans ^a   Seifert, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROLENSES; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

BACK FOCAL LENGTH; CONVENTIONAL OPTICAL MICROSCOPES; FIXED FOCUS; FOCAL LENGTHS; LOW COSTS; MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION MEASUREMENTS; TUNABLE MICRO-LENSES;

LENSES;

EID: 77953606025     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.012458     Document Type: Article

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