Thin ferroelectric interferometer for spatial light modulations

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 32, 1998, Pages 7490-7495

  Wang, Feiling ^a   Li, Kewen K ^a   Fuflyigin, Vladimir ^a   Jiang, Hua ^a   Zhao, Jing ^a   Norris, Peter ^a   Goldstein, Dennis ^b  

^a NZ Applied Technologies   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT MODULATORS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; MIRRORS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SUBSTRATES; THIN FILMS;

LEAD LANTHANUM ZIRCONATED TITANATE; SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATIONS; THIN FERROELECTRIC INTERFEROMETERS;

LIGHT MODULATION;

EID: 0032505931     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.007490     Document Type: Article

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