Restoration of broadband imagery steered with a liquid-crystal optical phased array

Optical Engineering

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 2613-2619

  Weinschenk, Jeffrey J ^a   Hardie, Russell C ^a   Harris, Scott R ^b  

^a University of Dayton   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Broadband; Image restoration; Image steering; Optical phased array

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL FILTERS; REFLECTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

BROADBAND IMAGERY; CHROMATIC ABERRATIONS; DIGITAL IMAGE RESTORATION; IMAGE STEERING; LIQUID CRYSTAL OPTICAL PHASED ARRAY; WIENER DECONVOLUTION FILTER;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036810719     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1506370     Document Type: Article

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