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Mads Demenikov1, Gonzalo Muyo, Andrew R Harvey
1School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK.
Abstract:
We demonstrate an experimental method to obtain a continuously variable hybrid imaging system that uses two generalized cubic phase masks, to enable real-time optimization of the trade between extended depth-of-field and noise gain. We obtain point-spread functions as a function of the rotation angle and show an example of optimization based on recovered image quality.
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