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Lens-free Video Microscopy for the Dynamic and Quantitative Analysis of Adherent Cell Culture
Published on: February 23, 2018
Ambiguity function and phase-space tomography for nonparaxial fields
Seongkeun Cho1, Miguel A Alonso
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA. keun79@pas.rochester.edu
Abstract:
A nonparaxial generalization of the ambiguity function that retains several properties of its paraxial counterpart is presented, in both two and three dimensions. This generalization is used to extend into the nonparaxial regime a scheme for the recovery of the coherence properties of scalar partially coherent fields in two-dimensional space.
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