Operation modes of a liquid-crystal modal wave-front corrector

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2209-2225

  Loktev, Mikhail ^a   Vdovin, Gleb ^a   Guralnik, Igor ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b SAMARA NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIQUID CRYSTALS; NUMERICAL METHODS; WAVEFRONTS;

LIQUID CRYSTAL MODAL WAVEFRONT CORRECTOR; MODAL WAVEFRONT CORRECTOR; WAVEFRONT CORRECTION;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 2342635861     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.002209     Document Type: Article

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