Programmable vector point-spread function engineering

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2650-2656

  Beversluis, Michael R ^a   Novotny, Lukas ^a   Stranick, Stephan J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; FLUORESCENCE; FOCUSING; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; POLARIZATION; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS; VECTORS;

NUMERICAL APERTURE; PROGRAMMABLE VECTOR; SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS (SLM'S); VECTOR POINT SPREAD FUNCTION (VPSF);

LIGHT MODULATION;

EID: 33645503116     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.002650     Document Type: Article

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