Characteristics of the thick, compound refractive lens

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 719-723

  Pantell, Richard H ^a   Feinstein, Joseph ^a   Beguiristain, H Raul ^b   Piestrup, Melvin A ^b   Gary, Charles K ^b   Cremer, Jay T ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b ADELPHI TECHNOLOGY INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT REFRACTION; NEUTRONS; PHOTONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; X RAYS;

COMPOUND REFRACTIVE LENS (CRL);

LENSES;

EID: 0037325268     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.000719     Document Type: Article

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