Angular-scattering characteristics of ferroelectric liquid-crystal electro-optical devices operating in the transient-scattering and the extended-scattering modes

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 11-20

  Viard, Elise ^a,b   Le Louarn, Miska ^a,c   Hubin, Norbert ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^b Obs Padova   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; OPTICAL SENSORS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY;

LASER GUIDE STARS (LGS);

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 0036286255     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.000011     Document Type: Article

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