Development of liquid crystal adaptive lens with circular electrodes for imaging application

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4987, Issue , 2003, Pages 209-220

  Sun, Yi ^a   Nordin, Gregory P ^b   Kowel, Stephen T ^c   Wang, Bin ^b  

^a APPLIED BIOSYSTEMS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^c 705 Engineering Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Imaging system; Liquid crystal lens; Micro fabrication; Optoelectronic devices

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEPOSITION; ELECTRODES; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; ETCHING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LITHOGRAPHY; MASKS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TRANSPARENCY;

VARIABLE FOCAL LENGTH LENSES;

LENSES;

EID: 0242440800     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.474362     Document Type: Conference Paper

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