Programmable birefringent lenses with a liquid-crystal display

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 34, 2004, Pages 6235-6241

  Davis, Jeffrey A ^a   Evans, Garrett H ^a   Crabtree, Karlton ^a   Moreno, Ignacio ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTERFEROMETERS; LENSES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; POLARIMETERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; VIDEODISKS;

BIREFRINGENT LENSES; BIREFRINGENT MATERIALS; INTERFERENCE FRINGES; SPATIAL FILTERS;

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS;

EID: 10644282209     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.006235     Document Type: Article

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