Trade studies used to design optical imaging systems frequently result in systems being undersampled. The resolution of such systems is limited by the finite size of the detector pixels rather than the cutoff spatial frequency of the optical system. Multiframe super-resolution techniques can be used to combine a number of spatially displaced images from such systems into a single, high-resolution image.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPhase diversity algorithms allow a wavefront to be reconstructed from through-focus measurements of a point source or extended scene. These algorithms have traditionally been limited to systems that are Nyquist sampled. Many optical systems for remote sensing applications are designed to be undersampled, however.
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