Variable-focus liquid lens

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 5931-5936

  Ren, Hongwen ^a   Wu, Shin Tson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME CONTROL; SUBSTRATES;

ELASTIC MEMBRANES; LIQUID LENS; PLANO CONVEX LENS; THIN ELASTIC MEMBRANES;

LENSES;

EID: 34248534519     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.005931     Document Type: Article

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