Liquid crystal tunable birefringent filters

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2830, Issue , 1996, Pages 345-350

  Kopp, Greg ^a   Derks, Michael ^a   Graham, Alan ^a  

^a Meaaôwlark Optics   (United States)

Author keywords

Birefringent filters; Liquid crystals; Polarization interference; Spectral imaging; Tunable filters

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; INFRARED DEVICES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE RESEARCH; SPECTROSCOPY; TUNING;

AIRBORNE REMOTE SENSING; BIREFRINGENT FILTERS; LIQUID CRYSTAL TUNABLE FILTER; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; POLARIZATION INTERFERENCES; SPECTRAL IMAGING; TUNABLE FILTERS; VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED;

CRYSTAL FILTERS;

EID: 17144419167     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.256127     Document Type: Conference Paper

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