title: Imaging characteristics of a wavefront coding system with off-axis aberrations.
abstract: Imaging characteristics are analyzed for a wavefront coding system suffering from off-axis aberrations such as primary astigmatism and primary coma. Some analytical expressions for the optical transfer function are obtained by using the stationary-phase method. These expressions give the relationship between the optical transfer function and the off-axis aberrations. Some cases are computed and illustrated graphically. It is shown that the wavefront coding system has a high tolerance to primary astigmatism and a low sensitivity to primary coma.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. leihua6339@gmail.com
authors.forename: Hua
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lei
authors.forename: Huajun
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.forename: Xiaoping
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Tao
authors.forename: Zhihai
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Xu