Programmable apodizer in incoherent imaging systems using a digital micromirror device

Chu-Ming Cheng; Jyh-Long Chern

doi:10.1117/1.3314306

1 February 2010 Programmable apodizer in incoherent imaging systems using a digital micromirror device

Chu-Ming Cheng, Jyh-Long Chern

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 49, Issue 2, 023201 (February 2010). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3314306

Abstract

We propose a programmable apodizer using a digital micromirror device and the total-internal-reflection prism subsystem for incoherent imaging systems. It is shown that the proposed programmable apodizer can extend the depth of focus with the specific shaped aperture generated by the digital micromirror device. With a scale ratio of K0.05, one can achieve almost the same level of imaging quality as provided by the conventional annular apodizer, where K represents the ratio between the integer multiple of the micromirror's square pixel size and the diameter of the effective aperture stop.

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Chu-Ming Cheng and Jyh-Long Chern "Programmable apodizer in incoherent imaging systems using a digital micromirror device," Optical Engineering 49(2), 023201 (1 February 2010). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3314306

Published: 1 February 2010

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