Telecentric confocal optics for aberration correction of acousto-optic tunable filters

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1255-1260

  Suhre, Dennis R ^a   Denes, Louis J ^a   Gupta, Neelam ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; DIFFRACTION; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; IMAGE QUALITY; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICS; RAY TRACING; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ACOUSTOOPTIC TUNABLE FILTER; BRAGG DIFFRACTION; DIFFRACTION ABERRATION; TELECENTRIC CONFOCAL OPTICS;

ACOUSTOOPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 1542276732     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.001255     Document Type: Article

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