Array illuminator with arbitrary fan-out

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 25, 2006, Pages 6525-6532

  Hamam, Habib ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; TOPOLOGY;

ARRAY ILLUMINATORS; INCOHERENT IMAGING;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33750317826     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.006525     Document Type: Article

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