Geometric superresolution by using an optical mask
Mohammad Sohail2010, Applied optics
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Abstract
In optical imaging, the resolution of the imaging system is not only limited by the aperture and imperfec-tion of the lens, but also by the CCD nonzero pixel size and separation between the two consecutive pixels. We deal only with the geometric superresolution and assume that ...
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