Measurement of the phase modulation in liquid crystal television based on the fractional-Talbot effect

Optical Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 2680-2684

  Serrano Heredia, Alfonso ^a,b   Lu, Guowen ^a   Purwosumarto, Purwadi ^a   Yu, Francis T S ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ASTROFÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Complex grating; Fractional Talbot effect; Fresnel diffraction; Liquid crystal television; Phase modulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 3643085205     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.600834     Document Type: Article

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