Photoconductive optically driven deformable membrane for spatial light modulator applications utilizing GaAs substrates

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2615-2622

  Haji saeed, Bahareh ^a   Kolluru, Rathna ^a   Pyburn, Dana ^a   Leon, Roberto ^a   Sengupta, Sandip K ^a   Testorf, Markus ^a   Goodhue, William ^a   Khoury, Jed ^b   Drehman, Alvin ^b   Woods, Charles L ^b   Kierstead, John ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c SOLID STATE SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROSTATICS; GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHTING; MIRRORS; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; POLYMERIC MEMBRANES;

ALUMINIZED MYLAR MEMBRANE; GAAS WAFER; MICHELSON INTERFEROMETER; PATTERNED PHOTORESIST;

GEOMETRICAL OPTICS;

EID: 33745135038     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.002615     Document Type: Article

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