Mid-Wave IR Liquid Crystal Tunable Retarder for Spectrapolarimetric Imaging

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5268, Issue , 2004, Pages 137-143

  Prasad, Narasimha S ^a   Arnett, Kenneth E ^b   Gupta, Neelam ^c  

^a Division of Coherent Technologies Inc   (United States)

^b Perdix Inc   (United States)

^c U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Liquid crystal; Mid wave IR; Retarder; Spectrapolarimetric imager

Indexed keywords

LIQUID CRYSTAL TUNABLE RETARDERS (LCTR); MIDWAVE INFRARED (MWIR); SPECTRAPOLARIMETRIC IMAGERS;

BIREFRINGENCE; IMAGE SENSORS; INFRARED RADIATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; POLARIMETERS;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 2142663202     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.519645     Document Type: Conference Paper

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