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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 29, 2000
Filed:
Aug. 10, 1998
Alan C Nutt, Rochester, NY (US);
Jeffrey I Hirsh, Rochester, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
An optical phase noise filter for use with an optical imaging system such as a solid-state imager or the like, including a transparent substrate; and a plurality of transparent spots randomly placed on the transparent substrate for producing a phase difference between a wavefront transmitted through the transparent spots and that portion of the transparent substrate other than the transparent spots to define an optical phase noise filter having a spatial sampling cut-off frequency and wherein the variance of the transparent spot to transparent spot distance between adjacent spots is minimized while maintaining the randomness of transparent spot placement.