Abstract

Apodization theory is concerned with the determination of the distribution of light over the exit pupil of an optical system required in order to achieve a suppression of the side lobes of the diffraction pattern. Here analytic solutions are given to the problem of determining the distribution of light in the exit pupil to concentrate maximally the illuminance in a geometrically similar region of the image plane. Both slit and circular apertures are treated.

© 1965 Optical Society of America

Solution of the Luneberg Apodization Problems*

Richard Barakat
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 52(3) 264-275 (1962)

Two Families of Apodization Problems

C. W. McCutchen
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 59(9) 1163-1171 (1969)

Exact Solution to a Lens Problem*

C. Yeh
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 55(7) 860-867 (1965)

Application of Apodization to Increase Two-Point Resolution by the Sparrow Criterion. II. Incoherent Illumination

Richard Barakat and Elgie Levin
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 53(2) 274-282 (1963)

Application of Apodization to Increase Two-Point Resolution by the Sparrow Criterion. I. Coherent Illumination

Richard Barakat
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 52(3) 276-283 (1962)