Amplitude apodizers encoded onto Fresnel lenses implemented on a phase-only spatial light modulator

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 14, 2001, Pages 2316-2322

  Mérquez, Andrés ^a   Iemmi, Claudio ^c   Escalera, Juan C ^a   Campos, Juan ^a   Ledesma, Silvia ^c   Davis, Jeffrey A ^b   Yzuel, María J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT MODULATORS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL FILTERS; SIGNAL ENCODING;

AMPLITUDE APODIZERS;

LENSES;

EID: 0038261928     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.002316     Document Type: Article

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