Progress report on the USAF Research Laboratory liquid crystal AO program

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3353, Issue , 1998, Pages 776-781

  Restaino, Sergio R ^a   Payne, Don M ^b   Anderson, Michael H ^c   Baker, Jeffrey T ^d   Serati, Steven A ^e   Loos, Gary C ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Shafer Corp   (United States)

^c Meadowlark Optics Inc   (United States)

^d BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^e BOULDER NONLINEAR SYSTEMS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Liquid crystals

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ARCTIC ENGINEERING; CRYSTALS; EQUIPMENT TESTING; FERROELECTRICITY; LIGHT SOURCES; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; RESEARCH LABORATORIES; SCHEDULING; TEST FACILITIES; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; LIGHT MODULATORS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL SENSORS; WAVEFRONTS;

CLOSED LOOP TESTS; ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS; EXPERIMENTAL PARAMETERS; FERROELECTRIC LC; NEMATIC LC; PROGRESS REPORTS; TEST BEDS; WAVE-FRONT SENSORS; FERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; WAVEFRONT SENSOR;

LIQUID CRYSTALS; ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 0032266810     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.321694     Document Type: Conference Paper

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