Computation and Analysis of Imaging Aberrations
A special issue of Journal of Imaging (ISSN 2313-433X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (19 April 2019)
Special Issue Editor
Interests: optical imaging; optical design; hyperspectral imaging; physiological optics
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Dear Colleagues,
The successful design and analysis of any optical imaging system requires the understanding of optical aberrations. Further, current optical systems can include the combination of different types of elements such as conventional reflective/refractive, diffractive, polarizing, freeform as well as gradient-index ones. Moreover, some modern systems have special apertures which requires a different approach other than having circular ones for their wavefront aberration analysis. Imaging systems range many scientific areas including digital imaging, astronomy, biology, bio inspired imaging, ophthalmic and ocular applications, optical processing, lasers, surveillance, and so on.
The computation and analysis of the optical aberrations to evaluate and improve their quality can be done in the spatial domain by means of raytracing, spot diagrams or point spread functions, and in the frequency domain by using the geometrical or diffraction optical transfer function. Extension of the well-known third order theory of aberrations is needed to achieve this goal, and thus, fifth order theory, nodal theory, and high order aberrations enter to play as recent studies have demonstrated.
In addition to these essential topics, as well as the aberration function, wave and ray aberrations, and aberration coefficients, this Special Issue on “Computation and Analysis of Imaging Aberrations” may include the following topics, but is not limited to them:
- Balancing aberrations.
- Pupil aberrations effects in wide angle systems.
- Aberrations in polarizing systems.
- Chromatic aberrations.
- Orthonormal polynomials for wavefront analysis of special aperture systems.
- Ocular aberrations and in systems for ophthalmic applications.
- Imaging quality metrics from point spread functions.
- Imaging quality metrics from transfer functions.
Dr. José Antonio Díaz Navas
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Optical aberrations
- Wavefront analysis
- Polarizing aberrations
- Chromatic aberrations
- Orthonormal polynomials
- Point spread functions
- Optical transfer functions
