2.71 | Spring 2009 | Undergraduate, Graduate

Optics

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Lecture 22: Coherent and incoherent imaging

Topics: Temporal and spatial coherence; spatially incoherent imaging; Optical Transfer Function (OTF) and Modulation Transfer Function (MTF); comparison of coherent and incoherent imaging.

Instructors: George Barbastathis, Colin Sheppard

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