Accession Number:

AD0670532

Title:

RESEARCH IN OPTICAL COHERENCE.

Descriptive Note:

Final rept.,

Corporate Author:

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES DEPT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

Personal Author(s):

• Macmillan,Robert S.
• Young,Gregory O.
• Arnett,James D.

Report Date:

1967-12-01

Pagination or Media Count:

17.0

Abstract:

Major accomplishments include the writing of a fundamental paper on optical system optimization and the development of a transcoherence theory for intensity as well as for fields. An experimental program was initiated. An optical system was simulated by a computer. Arbitrary aperture size, shape, and amplitude and phase shading can be introduced into the computer, which generates the corresponding far-field pattern i.e., image. The image may then be read out andor photographed. The improvement achieved by transcoherence-function maximization can then be shown experimentally as well as theoretically. Author

Descriptors:

• *COHERENT RADIATION
• *DATA PROCESSING
• LENSES
• FOURIER ANALYSIS
• INTENSITY
• CORRELATION TECHNIQUES
• SIMULATION
• OPTICAL IMAGES
• FOCUSING
• OPTICAL EQUIPMENT
• OPTIMIZATION
• SIMULATION

Subject Categories:

• Lasers and Masers
• Optics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE