Variational calculus approach to Zernike polynomials with application to FCS
Authors Gligonov I, Enderlein J Journal Biophysical Journal Citation Biophys J. 2025 Oct 21;124(20):3366-3379. Abstract Zernike polynomials are a sequence of orthogonal polynomials that play a crucial role in optics and, in particular, modeling microscopy systems. Introduced by Frits Zernike in 1934, they are particularly useful in expressing wavefront aberrations


