Tunable Fresnel lens using nanoscale polymer-dispersed liquid crystals

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 83, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1515-1517

  Ren, Hongwen ^a   Fan, Yun Hsing ^a   Wu, Shin Tson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; FOURIER OPTICS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; TUNING; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

LIGHT DIFFRACTIONS;

OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES;

EID: 0042782846     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1604943     Document Type: Article

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