Polarization controllable Fresnel lens using dye-doped liquid crystals

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2359-2364

  Lin, Tsung Hsien ^a,b   Huang, Yuhua ^b   Fuh, Andy Y G ^a   Wu, Shin Tson ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); DYES; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; LENSES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT SCATTERING;

FRESNEL LENS; OPERATION VOLTAGES; ORTHOGONAL POLARIZATION STATES;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 33645062938     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.002359     Document Type: Article

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