Imaging performance of the liquid-crystal-adaptive lens with conductive ladder meshing

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 34, 1997, Pages 8958-8969

  Chan, Wing W ^a   Kowel, Stephen T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; ELECTROOPTICAL MATERIALS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; THIN FILMS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

CONDUCTIVE LADDER MESHING; LIQUID CRYSTAL ADAPTIVE LENS; LIQUID CRYSTAL THIN FILMS; SIMULATED ANNEALING VOLTAGE DITHERING TECHNIQUE;

LENSES;

EID: 0031386143     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.008958     Document Type: Article

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