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Limits in Optics – How to Bargain with Nature

Gerd Häusler1, Christian Faber2, Pavel Pavlicek3
  1. 1Institute of Optics, Information and Photonics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
  2. 2Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Industrial Engineering, Landshut University of Applied Sciences
  3. 3Joint Laboratory of Optics, Palacký University Olomouc (Czechia)

gerd [dot] haeusler [at] fau [dot] de

In a 2006 letter to the DGaO community, Adolf Lohmann revealed that his major source of inspiration was linear systems theory. We follow his recommendation and introduce a systems theory of optical metrology, leading to a large “invention matrix”. We categorize the plethora of sensor options by their limits.

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@inproceedings{haeusler2026s1,
  author     = {Häusler, Gerd and Faber, Christian and Pavlicek, Pavel},
  title      = {{Limits in Optics – How to Bargain with Nature}},
  booktitle  = {DGaO-Proceedings 2026},
  series     = {DGaO-Proceedings},
  eventtitle = {127. Jahrestagung der DGaO},
  eventdate  = {2026-05-27/2026-05-29},
  venue      = {Hamburg},
  publisher  = {Deutsche Gesellschaft für angewandte Optik e.V.},
  year       = {2026},
  pages      = {S1},
  langid     = {english},
  doi        = {10.83229/127-s001},
  url        = {https://dgao-proceedings.de/paper/127-s1}
}
127. Annual Conference of the DGaO · Hamburg · 2026
DOI: 10.83229/127-s001