Abstract

An iterative computation method was proposed to accurately reconstruct the optical transfer function (OTF) of an imaging lens from a series of recorded images of different patterns displayed on a digital micromirror device (DMD). Since several tens of recorded images are adopted in combination, the measurement noise is remarkably reduced in comparison with the conventional measurement method using a point object, and quite high measurement accuracy is reached by taking the known shape of each tiny mirror of the DMD into computation. While theoretical analysis is demonstrated, the validity of this proposed method is verified both numerically and experimentally.

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