Optimizing sampling and padding at the pupil plane for light propagation simulations based in Fourier transforms for wavefront coding
E Acosta¹, E González Amador¹ and J Arines²

Abstract

Wavefront coding technique makes use of a phase plate encoding aberrations at the exit pupil of an optical system to extend its depth of focus. The defocused images are deblurred through a deconvolution process involving the OTF of the optical system. Therefore, for both the design of the phase mask as well as the deconvolution process, accurate OTF matrices have to be evaluated. Nyquist frequency imposes an upper limit to the size of the pixel of the image plane when optical systems are simulated by means of Fourier Transforms, but not limited to the size of the pixel in the pupil. In this work, we propose an additional upper limit to the size of the pixel of the pupil to avoid errors due to undersampling the phase and optimize computation time. The work will be illustrated with numerical simulations for two different phase masks proposed for wavefront coding imaging system. ©Anita Publications. All rights reserved
Keywords: Wavefront Coding, Nyquist Frequency, Fourier Transform, Optimizing sampling.

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