Pneumatically actuated adaptive lenses with millisecond response time

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 17, 2007, Pages

  Campbell, Kyle ^a   Fainman, Yeshaiahu ^b   Groisman, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ADAPTIVE OPTICS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SCANNING;

ACTUATED ADAPTIVE LENSES; DIOPTERS; MILLISECOND RESPONSE TIME; TRANSPARENT FLEXIBLE MEMBRANES;

OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES;

EID: 35548971156     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2801983     Document Type: Article

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