On the Limiting Sensitivity of the Star Test for Optical Instruments

1 January 1960

journal article
Published by Optica Publishing Group in Journal of the Optical Society of America

Vol. 50 (1) , 21
https://doi.org/10.1364/josa.50.000021

Abstract

Calculations of the light flux distribution in the defocused star image suggest that λ/60 of sharply varying aberration and λ/20 of slowly varying aberration can be detected.

Keywords

LIMITING SENSITIVITY
OPTICAL
DEFOCUSED
SLOWLY
SHARPLY
IMAGE SUGGEST
Λ/20
Λ/60
INSTRUMENTS CALCULATIONS

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On the zernike phase-contrast test
Proceedings of the Physical Society, 1946
A contribution to the theory of the Foucault test
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