Polymer stabilized liquid crystal lens for electro-optical zoom

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5577, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 861-869

  Presnyakov, Vladimir ^a,b   Galstian, Tigran ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b Special Designing and Technological Bureau Nauka KSC SB RAS   (Russian Federation)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Active optics; Adaptive optics; Polymer stabilized liquid crystals; Zoom lens

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE OPTICS; FOCAL LENGTH; POLYMER STABILIZED LIQUID CRYSTALS; ZOOM LENS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTIMIZATION; POLYMERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SUBSTRATES; TUNING;

LENSES;

EID: 21944443450     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.567483     Document Type: Conference Paper

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