Liquid crystal lens for spherical aberration compensation in a blu-ray disc system

IEE Proceedings: Science, Measurement and Technology

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 15-18

  Knittel, Joachim ^a   Richter, H ^a   Hain, M ^b   Somalingam, S ^b   Tschudi, T ^b  

^a Thomson Multimedia   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; FOCUSING; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL DISK STORAGE; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL TESTING; RAY TRACING; ROM;

BLU-RAY DISC SYSTEM; LIQUID CRYSTAL LENS; OPTICAL PICKUP; SPHERICAL ABERRATION COMPENSATION;

LENSES;

EID: 14244262815     PISSN: 13502344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1049/ip-smt:20051044     Document Type: Article

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