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23 September 2015 Design and implementation of a Cooke triplet based wave-front coded super-resolution imaging system
Hui Zhao, Jingxuan Wei
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Abstract
Wave-front coding is a powerful technique that could be used to extend the DOF (depth of focus) of incoherent imaging system. It is the suitably designed phase mask that makes the system defocus invariant and it is the de-convolution algorithm that generates the clear image with large DOF. Compared with the traditional imaging system, the point spread function (PSF) in wave-front coded imaging system has quite a large support size and this characteristic makes wave-front coding be capable of realizing super-resolution imaging without replacing the current sensor with one of smaller pitch size. An amplification based single image super-resolution reconstruction procedure has been specifically designed for wave-front coded imaging system and its effectiveness has been demonstrated experimentally. A Cooke Triplet based wave-front coded imaging system is established. For a focal length of 50 mm and f-number 4.5, objects within the range [5 m, ∞] could be clearly imaged, which indicates a DOF extension ratio of approximately 20. At the same time, the proposed processing procedure could produce at least 3× resolution improvement, with the quality of the reconstructed super-resolution image approaching the diffraction limit.
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Hui Zhao and Jingxuan Wei "Design and implementation of a Cooke triplet based wave-front coded super-resolution imaging system", Proc. SPIE 9630, Optical Systems Design 2015: Computational Optics, 963012 (23 September 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2190814
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KEYWORDS
Point spread functions

Imaging systems

Super resolution

Lens design

Diffraction

Optical transfer functions

Sensors

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