Theory for upconversion of incoherent images

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1475-1482

  Dam, Jeppe Seidelin ^a   Pedersen, Christian ^a   Tidemand Lichtenberg, Peter ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS;

COHERENT IMAGES; GENERIC METHOD; INCOHERENT LIGHT; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL CONTENT; UP-CONVERSION;

OPTICS;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED;

EID: 84855977257     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.001475     Document Type: Article

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