Achromatic hybrid refractive-diffractive lens with extended depth of focus

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 30, 2004, Pages 5618-5630

  Flores, Angel ^a   Wang, Michael R ^a   Yang, Jame J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b New Span Opto Technology Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LENSES; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; REFRACTION;

ACHROMATIC HYBRID LENS; DIFFRACTIVE LENS; OPTICAL LENSES; REFRACTIVE LENS;

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 8344225309     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.005618     Document Type: Article

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