Image upconversion from the visible to the UV domain: Application to dynamic UV microstereolithography

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 28, 2001, Pages 4953-4957

  Devaux, Fabrice ^a   Mosset, Alexis ^a   Lantz, Eric ^a   Monneret, Serge ^b   Le Gall, Herve ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; LITHOGRAPHY; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; POLYMERIZATION; RESINS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

MICROSTEREOLITHOGRAPHY;

LASER OPTICS;

EID: 0011987389     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.004953     Document Type: Article

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