Abstract

A method of measuring the total illuminance of an optical system is described. Measurements made on a real system show good correlation between theoretical and experimental data. It has been found that experimental measurements of this kind easily reveal the degree of color correction in the axial image and can quantitatively give a measure of lens system performance in terms of total illuminance.

© 1963 Optical Society of America

Measurement of the Total Illuminance in a Diffraction Image. Part II. Line Sources

Richard Barakat, Alfred Newman, and Ronald Humphreys
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 54(10) 1256-1260 (1964)

Reciprocity Relations between the Transfer Function and Total Illuminance. I

Richard Barakat and Agnes Houston
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 53(11) 1244-1249 (1963)

Transfer Functions and Total Illuminance of High Numerical Aperture Systems Obeying the Sine Condition*

Richard Barakat and David Lev
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 53(3) 324-332 (1963)

Some Experimental Measurements of Diffraction Images in Low-Resolution Microscopy

W. N. Charman
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 53(4) 410-414 (1963)

Diffraction Images of Circular Objects in High-Resolution Microscopy

W. N. Charman
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 53(4) 415-419 (1963)