High-performance fluidic adaptive lenses

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 783-787

  Zhang, De Ying ^a   Justis, Nicole ^a   Lien, Victor ^a   Berdichevsky, Yevgeny ^a   Lo, Yu Hwa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; FABRICATION; GLASS; LITHOGRAPHY; MEMBRANES; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PERFORMANCE; PRESSURE CONTROL; SILICONES; WATER;

FOCAL LENGTH; HIGH PERFORMANCE FLUIDIC ADAPTIVE LENSES; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE FLUIDIC CHAMBER;

OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES;

EID: 1142291665     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.000783     Document Type: Article

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