Objective lens design for multiple-layer optical data storage

Optical Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 295-301

  Milster, Tom D ^a   Upton, Robert S ^a   Luo, Hui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aberration compensation; Aspheric objective lens; Multiple layer disk; Optical data storage; Spherical aberration

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010435232     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.602088     Document Type: Article

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