Measurement and modeling of the angular dispersion in liquid crystal broadband beam steering devices

Optical Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 3371-3379

  Dominic, Vincent G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam steering; Beampropagation method; Liquid crystals; Spatial light modulators

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000055386     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601095     Document Type: Article

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