Experimental retroreflectors with very wide field of view

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5986, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Handerek, V ^a   McArdle, H ^a   Willats, T ^a   Psaila, N ^b   Laycock, L ^a  

^a BAE SYSTEMS   (United Kingdom)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corner cubes; Free space optical communication; Graded index; Retroreflectors; Sphere lenses

Indexed keywords

LENSES; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SPACE OPTICS;

CORNER-CUBES; FREE-SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; RETROREFLECTORS;

MIRRORS;

EID: 33644507401     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.630556     Document Type: Conference Paper

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