Wide-aperture no-moving-parts optical beam profiler using liquid-crystal displays

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 506-512

  Gentili, Matteo ^a   Riza, Nabeel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT REFLECTION; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; OPTICAL DESIGN; THIN FILM TRANSISTORS;

BEAM DIVERGENCE MEASUREMENTS; LCD PROFILERS; PINHOLE PROFILING;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33947169327     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.000506     Document Type: Article

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