Rotating point spread function via pupil-phase engineering
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1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA. sprasad@unm.edu
Optics Letters
|March 5, 2013
Abstract:
A simple approach based on the use of a properly designed pupil-phase profile can yield a 3D point-spread function (PSF) that rotates with changing defocus, while keeping its transverse shape approximately invariant over ±3-4 waves of defocus. Unlike Gauss-Laguerre mode-based approaches, it generalizes readily for encoding spherical aberration too via PSF rotation.

