Pixel level optical-transfer-function design based on the surface-wave-interferometry aperture

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 16499-16506

  Zheng, Guoan ^a   Wang, Yingmin ^b   Yang, Changhuei ^a,b  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY; DESIGN; HIGH PASS FILTERS; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PIXELS; SURFACE WAVES;

BULL'S EYE STRUCTURES; COMPUTATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY; DARK FIELD IMAGING; HIGH-PASS; LIGHT PATH; OPTICAL ARRANGEMENT; OPTICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING; OPTOFLUIDIC MICROSCOPY; PERIODIC GROOVES; PIXEL LEVEL; THICK GOLD LAYER; VISION SYSTEMS;

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTOGRAPHY; VISION;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL DEVICES; PHOTOGRAPHY; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 77955222255     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.016499     Document Type: Article

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