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Axial imaging necessitates loss of lateral shift invariance
Andy Stein1, George Barbastathis
1Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139, USA. astein@mit.edu
Applied Optics
|October 23, 2002
Abstract:
We conjecture that the lateral shift invariance of an imaging system must be limited if axial imaging capability is desired. We develop shift-invariance and depth-resolution metrics and demonstrate the trade-off in simple representative systems.