Keywords
image formation theory
optical transfer functions
optical morphological transformations
spatial filtering
Fourier optics
Fourier transforms
Abstract
The existing description of incoherent wave field propagation in terms of Fourier transformation has made possible to prove non-existence of the self-imaging phenomenon for incoherent images.
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