title: Imaging of incoherent extended objects by a polarizing microscope with crossed polarizers.
abstract: Diffraction images of incoherent objects such as line, edge and disk have been evaluated by carrying out integration of the point spread function over appropriate limits. The resulting expressions have been computed numerically and the results are in agreement with those obtained previously using optical transfer function approach.
mesh_terms: D008859:Microscopy, Polarization / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*