Annular apertures with low and high obstruction
Abstract
The distribution of image energy by the central obstruction of annular apertures is discussed with special emphasis on the effect of an aperture shape parameter which can be interpreted optically as the inverse obstruction ratio. This parameter generates group arrangements with the number of rings given by N2 = 1/a, where a is the central obstruction ratio.
- Publication:
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Applied Optics
- Pub Date:
- January 1981
- DOI:
- 10.1364/AO.20.000168
- Bibcode:
- 1981ApOpt..20..168T
- Keywords:
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- Annuli;
- Apertures;
- Imaging Techniques;
- Spectral Energy Distribution;
- Diffraction Patterns;
- Irradiance;
- Ring Structures;
- Instrumentation and Photography;
- APERTURES