Necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence and synthesis of bipolar incoherent pointspread functions

Abstract

In 1978 Lohmann and Rhodes [1] presented a general two-channel hybrid system for bipolar incoherent spatial filtering. The work by Lohmann and Rhodes is significant in that it presented a unified and compact analysis of such filtering. Subsequent work by Mait [2,3] is also significant for its consideration of synthesis, or design, of such systems so as to produce a specific bipolar response.