Design of spherically corrected, achromatic variable-focus liquid lenses

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 14146-14154

  Reichelt, Stephan ^a   Zappe, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTIMIZATION; TUNING;

ACHROMATIC VARIABLES; LIQUID LENSES; OPTICAL LIQUIDS;

LENSES;

EID: 35348973032     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.014146     Document Type: Article

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