Nanoengineered liquid mirrors shaped by thermal fields

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1595-1600

  Truong, Long ^a   Borra, Ermanno F ^a   Bergamasco, Rosangela ^a   Caron, Nicolas ^a   Laird, Phil ^a   Ritcey, Anna ^a  

^a CENTRE D OPTIQUE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ARRAYS; DEFORMATION; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; LASER ABLATION; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT REFLECTION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SHEAR DEFORMATION; SURFACE TENSION; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL DIFFUSION; THERMAL EFFECTS; THIN FILMS;

DEFORMABLE MIRRORS; LIQUID MIRRORS; METAL LIQUIDLIKE FILMS (MELLF); OPTICAL-QUALITY SURFACE;

MIRRORS;

EID: 15944392831     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.001595     Document Type: Article

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