Liquid-crystal microlens with a beam-steering function

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 20, 1997, Pages 4772-4778

  Masuda, Shin ^a,b   Takahashi, Sounosuke ^a   Nose, Toshiaki ^a   Sato, Susumu ^a   Ito, Hiromasa ^c  

^a AKITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ADVANTEST CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Beam steering; Liquid crystal; Liquid crystal microlens; Optical device

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001699598     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.004772     Document Type: Article

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