General transfer function of a compound optical system under linearity conditions in the Fresnel regime

Maria L. Calvo; Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan

doi:10.1117/12.55961

1 October 1991 General transfer function of a compound optical system under linearity conditions in the Fresnel regime

Maria L. Calvo, Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 30, Issue 10, (October 1991). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.55961

Abstract

A systematic procedure for calculating the general transfer function of a cascaded linear optical system working under the Fresnel regime is presented. The validity of neglecting the quadratic phase factors is also discussed. For the case of inhomogeneous optical devices with Gaussian profiles, explicit expressions for the transfer functions are calculated through specific Gaussian integrals.

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Maria L. Calvo and Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan "General transfer function of a compound optical system under linearity conditions in the Fresnel regime," Optical Engineering 30(10), (1 October 1991). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.55961

Published: 1 October 1991

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