Advances in liquid crystal based devices for wavefront control and beamsteering

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5894, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-13

  Serati, Steve ^a   Stockley, Jay ^a  

^a BOULDER NONLINEAR SYSTEMS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Liquid crystal phase modulators; Multi spot beam steering; Optical tweezers

Indexed keywords

LIQUID CRYSTAL PHASE MODULATORS; MULTI-SPOT BEAM STEERING; OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

DIFFRACTION; OPTICAL DEVICES; PHASE MODULATION; WAVEFRONTS;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 29344434287     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.623191     Document Type: Conference Paper

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