Aberrated dark-field imaging systems
Image and Video Processing
2018-12-05 v3 Optics
Abstract
We study generalized dark-field imaging systems. These are a subset of linear shift-invariant optical imaging systems, that exhibit arbitrary aberrations, and for which normally-incident plane-wave input yields zero output. We write down the theory for the forward problem of imaging coherent scalar optical fields using such arbitrarily-aberrated dark-field systems, and give numerical examples. The associated images may be viewed as a form of dark-field Gabor holography, utilizing arbitrary outgoing Green functions as generalized Huygens-type wavelets, and with the Young-type boundary wave forming the holographic reference.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1809.06855,
title = {Aberrated dark-field imaging systems},
author = {Mario A. Beltran and David M. Paganin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.06855},
year = {2018}
}