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Optical Processors as Conceptual Tools for Designing Nonconventional Devices

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We discuss the use of nonconventional optical processors for generating irradiance distributions, which are useful for visualizing the characteristics of imaging devices that extend the depth of field. Our discussion starts with the use of binary masks for generating nonconventional irradiance distributions, which display the variations of the impulse response with focus errors. By using an anamorphic optical processor these irradiance distributions can easily be transformed into variations of the optical transfer function vs focus errors. Next, another anamorphic optical processor is used for generating the ambiguity function of a pupil aperture, which helps to visualize the variations of the optical transfer function with variable focus error. Finally, we translate the integral transform associated with the evaluation of the ambiguity function into tunable devices for controlling the depth of field, without modifying the size of the pupil aperture.

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We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of CONACYT, grant 157673, Fondo: I0017, as well as the grant 1477-CIO-UG-2013, DAIP, University of Guanajuato.

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    Jorge Ojeda-Castañeda, Sergio Ledesma, Emmanuel Yépez-Vidal & Miguel Torres-Cisneros

  2. Digital Arts Department, Engineering Division, Campus Salamanca, University of Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico

    Cristina M. Gomez-Sarabia

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Ojeda-Castañeda, J., Ledesma, S., Yépez-Vidal, E., Gomez-Sarabia, C., Torres-Cisneros, M. (2015). Optical Processors as Conceptual Tools for Designing Nonconventional Devices. In: Shulika, O., Sukhoivanov, I. (eds) Advanced Lasers. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 193. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9481-7_8

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