Nanoengineered ferrofluid deformabie mirrors: A progress report

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6272 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Thibault, S ^b   Brousseau, D ^a   Rioux, M ^a   Senkow, S ^a   Dery J P ^a   Borra, E F ^a   Ritcey, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b ImmerVision   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Deformable mirror; Liquid mirror; Nanotechnology

Indexed keywords

DEFORMABIE MIRRORS; FERROMAGNETIC LIQUIDS; LIQUID MIRROR; NANOENGINEERED FERROFLUID;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL DEVICES; WAVEFRONTS;

MIRRORS;

EID: 33749386234     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.670297     Document Type: Conference Paper

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