Broadband beam steering

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3131, Issue , 1997, Pages 111-123

  Stockley, Jay E ^a   Serati, Steven A ^b   Sharp, Gary D ^b   Wang, Ping ^b   Walsh, Ken F ^c   Johnson, Kristina M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b BOULDER NONLINEAR SYSTEMS INC   (United States)

^c Rochester Photonics Corporation ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Broadband beamsteering liquid crystal gratings

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INFORMATION THEORY; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; MODULATION; OPTICAL DEVICES; PROGRAMMING THEORY; RADAR; SCANNING; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BEAM STEERING; BINARY LIQUIDS; BROAD BANDS; BROADBAND BEAMSTEERING LIQUID CRYSTAL GRATINGS; FAR FIELDS; FOURIER; FUTURE RESEARCH; LIGHT ILLUMINATION; MECHANICAL SYSTEM (MS); MODULATION THEORY; POLARIZATION MODULATION (PM);

LIGHT SOURCES;

EID: 0010051236     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.277739     Document Type: Conference Paper

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