ABSTRACT: There are two significant merit function of PSF, the first one being the intensity in the central lobe of the PSF should be large and the second being the width of the central maximum or the radius of the first dark ring in the PSF should be less when compared to that of the Airy case. The focus of this work is to formulate the optical filters so that the two aspects of the merit features of the PSF are realized in terms of reduction in the first minima and increase in the intensity distribution in the central maxima......
Keywords: Point spread function; Defocus; Primary spherical aberration; Super resolution, Apodization
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