Liquid crystals as materials for real-time holographic optical devices

Pure and Applied Optics (Print edition) (United Kingdom)

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 179-189

  Miniewicz, Andrzej ^a   Parka, Januz ^b   Bartkiewicz, Stanisław ^a   Januszko, Adam ^a  

^a WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b MILITARY UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOLOGRAPHIC OPTICAL ELEMENTS; HOLOGRAPHY; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT MODULATORS; LIQUID CRYSTALS;

OPTICAL ADDRESSED SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATOR; REAL-TIME HOLOGRAPHY;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0032021886     PISSN: 09639659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0963-9659/7/2/008     Document Type: Article

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