Abstract

An f/3.5, 24-in. aerial-lens design has been evaluated heterochromatically to test the relative merits of geometric versus wave-optical transfer calculations. Both methods yielded substantially the same results for the lens under test. The geometric calculation required about $6\frac{1}{2}$ min of high-speed computer time while more than 3 h of equivalent computer time was required to make the diffraction calculations.

© 1965 Optical Society of America

Transfer Function of an Optical System in the Presence of Off-Axis Aberrations

Richard Barakat and Agnes Houston
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 55(9) 1142-1148 (1965)

Comparative Evaluation of the Color Matching Functions

S. R. Das
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 55(10) 1309-1313 (1965)

Theory and Experiments Concerning the Heterochromatic Threshold-Reduction Factor (HTRF)*

Robert M. Boynton, Horst Scheibner, Terry Yates, and Edward Rinalducci
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 55(12) 1672-1685 (1965)

Effect of Symmetric and Asymmetric Aberrations on the Phase of the Transfer Function*

John B. DeVelis
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 55(12) 1632-1638 (1965)

Determination of the Optical Transfer Function Directly from the Edge Spread Function*

Richard Barakat
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 55(10) 1217-1221 (1965)