Vol. 48, Issue 2, pp. 211-223
Keywords
image quality assessment, optical transfer function, longitudinal vibrations, mathematical methods in physics, finite analogs of Fourier transforms
Abstract
Close-form expression for the Strehl ratio calculated in the spatial frequency domain of the optical transfer function (SOTF) is considered for the case of time-varying dynamic optical system that has circular symmetry. Specifically, closed-form expressions for the temporally averaged SOTF are considered, which can be easily evaluated numerically (what we call a semi-analytic solution). As for the case of a static wavefront, described in Part 1 of this work, it is shown that the proposed methods are computationally more efficient than the commonly used approach based on the discrete Fourier transform.