Abstract
Hopkins’s formula [ Proc. R. Soc. London Ser. A208, 263 ( 1951)] is shown to apply to optical instruments provided that the light source can be represented by a planar, quasi-homogeneous source that satisfies an additional specific mathematical condition. It is shown that a large class of sources other than strictly incoherent sources permit the use of Hopkins’s formula.
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