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In general the pupil of an optical system is not in the lens plain if an object is imaged by partially coherent illumination. Hence, in transmission theory the complex transmission of the lens (i.e. mount or aberrations) is not allowed to be equated to the complex transmission of the pupil; that rather means a disturbance outside the pupil. The properties of such a system are calculated. It is found that the transmission is no longer isoplanatic.
The discussion of the extrapupillary disturbance gives an exact proof of the transition from the image formation of self-luminant objects to that of incoherently illuminated ones; in this connection the two classical theories which explain imaging on the basis of wave optics are shown to yield the same result even formally.
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Teil einer Darmstädter Dissertation D 17.
Herrn Professor Dr. E.Menzel möchte ich für die Stellung der Aufgabe und für sein förderndes Interesse herzlich danken. Der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft danke ich für die Ermöglichung meiner Teilnahme an der optischen Sommerschule im Juli 1960 in Paris.
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Hauser, H. Der Eingriff außerhalb der Pupille in der optischen Übertragungstheorie. Z. Physik 166, 289–298 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01380776
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01380776