The Aberrations of Non-rotationally Symmetric Systems and Their Diffraction Effects
- 1 January 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Optica Acta: International Journal of Optics
- Vol. 13 (1), 1-30
- https://doi.org/10.1080/713817966
Abstract
The aberrations of systems having (1) two axes of symmetry, (2) one axis of symmetry, (3) no axis of symmetry are investigated via Hamilton's mixed characteristic function W. The mixed characteristic W is also the aberration function in the Luneberg-Kirchhoff diffraction integral. The result is employed to obtain the (incoherent) transfer function for a circular aperture in the presence of these aberrations as well as the point spread function (distribution of illuminance). Typical numerical results are discussed.Keywords
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