Coherent imaging of extended objects

Details Coherent imaging of extended objects Coherent imaging of extended objects

2008-07-10

arxiv.org/abs/0807.1718v1

Physics

Optics

10 pages, 9 figures, submitted to Optics Communications

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.optcom.2008.10.058

When used with coherent light, optical imaging systems, even diffraction-limited, are inherently unable to reproduce both the amplitude and the phase of a two-dimensional field distribution because their impulse response function varies slowly from point to point (a property known as non-isoplanatism). For sufficiently small objects, this usually results in a phase distortion and has no impact on the measured intensity. Here, we show that the intensity distribution can also be dramatically distorted when objects of large extension or of special shapes are imaged. We illustrate the problem using two simple examples: the pinhole camera and the aberration-free thin lens. The effects predicted by our theorical analysis are also confirmed by experimental observations.

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