High-numerical-aperture image simulation using Babinet's principle

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1012-1023

  Yang, Seung Hune ^a   Milster, Tom ^a   Park, Jong Rak ^b   Zhang, Jun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Chosun University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; DIFFRACTION; FUNCTIONS; PERIODIC STRUCTURES; VECTOR SPACES;

COHERENCE FUNCTION; HIGH NA; IMAGE SIMULATIONS; IMAGE SPACE; OBJECT SPACE; PARTIAL COHERENCE; POLARIZED MICROSCOPY; RIGOROUS COUPLED-WAVE THEORY; SIMULATION RESULT; SIMULATION TECHNIQUE; VECTOR DIFFRACTION;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 77956007152     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.27.001012     Document Type: Article

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