Strehl Ratio for Annular Eccentric Circular Aperture with Presence of Seidel Aberrations

Mode-Matching Analysis for Circular and Annular Aperture Scattering

The mode-matching applications to scattering from circular and annular apertures in a thick perfectly conducting plane are reviewed. The Hankel and Weber transforms are utilized to solve the boundary-value problems of circular and annular apertures. Simple electrostatic problems are presented to illustrate the mode-matching method in terms of the Hankel and Weber transforms. Various types of We...

Strehl Ratio with Higher-Order Parabolic Filter

A spatially varying PSF model for Seidel aberrations and defocus

Contrary to common assumptions in the literature, the blur kernel corresponding to lens-effect blur has been demonstrated to be spatially-varying across the image plane. Existing models for the corresponding point spread function (PSF) are either parameterized and spatially-invariant, or spatially-varying but ad-hoc and discretelydefined. In this paper, we develop and present a novel, spatially...

Analysis of the Strehl ratio using the Wigner distribution function

The on-axis intensity distribution, or the Strehl ratio versus defocus, is described in a phase-space domain in terms of the Wigner distribution function. A coordinate transformation that is defined for a general annular aperture is employed to convert the pupil amplitude transmittance into a one-dimensional function. We show that the single display of the Wigner distribution function associate...

Strehl ratio for focusing into biaxially birefringent media.

The Strehl ratio for focusing into biaxially birefringent media with small birefringence is investigated. An analytical expression for the Strehl ratio as a function of the polarization and birefringence parameters is derived in the paraxial limit from a generalization of the scalar aberration theory. The expression agrees well with results of a numerical calculation.