Agile wide-angle beam steering with electrowetting microprisms

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 6557-6563

  Smith, Neil R ^a   Abeysinghe, Don C ^a   Haus, Joseph W ^b   Heikenfeld, Jason ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGILE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; DEFLECTION (STRUCTURES); GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL RADAR; PRISMS; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); SWITCHING SYSTEMS;

AGILE WIDE-ANGLE BEAM STEERING; ELECTROWETTING MICROPRISMS; HIGHER INDEX LIQUIDS; LENSING;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 33745860080     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.006557     Document Type: Article

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