In optics, the Airy disk (or Airy disc) and Airy pattern are descriptions of the best-focused spot of light that a perfect lens with a circular aperture...
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central pattern now called the Airy disk, surrounded by concentric rings comprising an Airy pattern. The size of the Airy disk depends on the light wavelength...
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Strehl ratio (section The Airy disk)
source"), is given by the Airy disk as illustrated here. For a circular aperture, the peak intensity found at the center of the Airy disk defines the point source...
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meridian of the planet Airy wave theory, a linear theory describing the propagation of "gravity waves" on the surface of a fluid Airy disk, a diffraction pattern...
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plane wave incident on a circular aperture is often referred to as the Airy disk. The variation in intensity with angle is given by I ( θ ) = I 0 ( 2 J...
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converging uniform spherical wave yields an Airy disk image at the focal plane. A graph of a sample Airy disk is shown in the adjoining figure. Therefore...
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principal diffraction maximum (center) of the Airy disk of one image coincides with the first minimum of the Airy disk of the other, as shown in the accompanying...
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circular aperture, the diffraction-limited image spot is known as an Airy disk; the distance x in the single-slit diffraction formula is replaced by...
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or a mechanical structure. In optics, it is primarily used to remove Airy disks caused by diffraction around an intensity peak, improving the focus. The...
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smallest feature in an image that is diffraction limited is the size of the Airy disk. As one decreases the size of the aperture of a telescopic lens, diffraction...
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perfectly. Even a perfect lens will convolve the incoming image with an Airy disk (the diffraction pattern produced by passing a point light source through...
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this pattern is known as an Airy pattern, and the central bright lobe as an Airy disk. The angular radius of the Airy disk (measured from the center to...
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diffraction transform of the aperture shape. This pattern normally would be an Airy disk resulting from a circular aperture, but with the mask in place, the pattern...
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observed with a telescope, the light is diffracted or spread apart into an Airy disk. The resolution limit is defined as the minimum angular separation between...
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nulls; this pattern is known as an Airy pattern, and the central bright lobe as an Airy disk. The size of such a disk is given by sin θ = 1.22 λ D {\displaystyle...
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Confocal microscopy (redirect from Spinning disk confocal microscopy)
out-of-focus fluorescence. Only the in-focus, or central spot of the Airy disk, is recorded. Four types of confocal microscopes are commercially available:...
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resulting image is large enough to scan the information in the barcode. Airy disk Light-field camera Mandelbaum effect Orb (optics) Soft focus Special effect...
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the Airy diffraction pattern. It can be seen that most of the light is in the central disk. The angle subtended by this disk, known as the Airy disk, is...
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Astronomical seeing (redirect from Seeing disk)
Without an atmosphere, a small star would have an apparent size, an "Airy disk", in a telescope image determined by diffraction and would be inversely...
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images of distant objects being spread out to a small spot known as the Airy disk. A group of objects whose images are closer together than this limit appear...
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small ice crystals. The diffraction pattern of the corona resembles an Airy disk, although the underlying physical mechanisms are quite different. Pollen...
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fluorescence microscopy a 2D Gaussian function is used to approximate the Airy disk, describing the intensity distribution produced by a point source. In...
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stellar disks. The stellar disks he observed were spurious (likely the Airy disk caused by diffraction, as stars are too distant for their physical disks to...
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the diffraction-limited resolution of the lens which is given by the Airy disk whose diameter is 2.4λu/D, where λ is the wavelength of the light, u is...
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profile of far-field diffraction through a circular aperture, known as an Airy disk. Richard E. Blahut (2004-11-18). Theory of Remote Image Formation. Cambridge...
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Diffraction spikes and the Airy disk are optical artifacts caused by the diffraction of light through the aperture of an optical system....
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apparent magnitudes of stars were caused by an optical phenomenon called the airy disk, and were functions of their brightness rather than true physical size...
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and is 0 otherwise. The result is the amplitude distribution of the Airy disk, and is expressed using J1 (the order-1 Bessel function of the first kind)...
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pattern is a central, nearly white disk. This resembles an atmospheric Airy disc but is not actually an Airy disk. It is different from rainbows and halos...
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narrowed to around 1mm for reading fine print, the size of the central "Airy" disk increases to a diameter of 10 photoreceptors. The so-called "blur" is...
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