Assessment of a Wigner-distribution-function-based method to compute the polychromatic axial response given by an aberrated optical system

Walter D. Furlan; Genaro Saavedra; Enrique Silvestre-Mora; Juan A. Monsoriu; Jose D. Patrignani

doi:10.1117/1.1541003

1 March 2003 Assessment of a Wigner-distribution-function-based method to compute the polychromatic axial response given by an aberrated optical system

Walter D. Furlan, Genaro Saavedra, Enrique Silvestre-Mora, Juan A. Monsoriu, Jose D. Patrignani

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 42, Issue 3, (March 2003). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1541003

A numerical method that uses the Wigner distribution function to compute the impulse response along the optical axis provided by an aberrated optical system is evaluated. The technique is compared with a classical method used to compute the response integral. Test systems with pupils of nonconventional shape are considered. It is shown that, in general, the same degree of accuracy for the computation of the polychromatic merit functions is achieved faster by use of this novel method.

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Walter D. Furlan, Genaro Saavedra, Enrique Silvestre-Mora, Juan A. Monsoriu, and Jose D. Patrignani "Assessment of a Wigner-distribution-function-based method to compute the polychromatic axial response given by an aberrated optical system," Optical Engineering 42(3), (1 March 2003). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1541003

Published: 1 March 2003

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