PMID- 18594683 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE DCOM- 20080916 LR - 20190703 IS - 0146-9592 (Print) IS - 0146-9592 (Linking) VI - 33 IP - 13 DP - 2008 Jul 1 TI - Optimized free-form phase mask for extension of depth of field in wavefront-coded imaging. PG - 1515-7 AB - To achieve a further extension of the depth of field in wavefront-coded imaging by reducing the impact of focus error in the optical transfer function, we propose the use of a free-form phase mask (FPM) instead of a conventional cubic phase mask (CPM). We optimized the shape of the FPM using the simulated annealing algorithm and confirmed that the optimized FPM provides a much larger focal tolerance and better final images than the CPM in the noise-free case. FAU - Takahashi, Yasuhisa AU - Takahashi Y AD - Department of Applied Physics, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Okubo, Shinjuku, Tokyo, 169-8555, Japan. FAU - Komatsu, Shinichi AU - Komatsu S LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - United States TA - Opt Lett JT - Optics letters JID - 7708433 EDAT- 2008/07/03 09:00 MHDA- 2008/07/03 09:01 CRDT- 2008/07/03 09:00 PHST- 2008/07/03 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2008/07/03 09:01 [medline] PHST- 2008/07/03 09:00 [entrez] AID - 165503 [pii] AID - 10.1364/ol.33.001515 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Opt Lett. 2008 Jul 1;33(13):1515-7. doi: 10.1364/ol.33.001515.