Reconfigurable mask for adaptive coded aperture imaging (ACAI) based on an addressable MOEMS microshutter array

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6714, Issue , 2007, Pages

  McNie, Mark E ^a   Combes, David J ^a   Smith, Gilbert W ^a   Price, Nicola ^a   Ridley, Kevin D ^a   Brunson, Kevin M ^a   Lewis, Keith L ^a   Slinger, Chris W ^a   Rogers, Stanley ^b  

^a QINETIQ   (United Kingdom)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive Coded Aperture Imaging (ACAI); Etalon; Infra red; Large area array; MEMS; Micro opto electro mechanical systems (MOEMS); Microshutter; Optics; Silicon

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; ELECTROSTATIC FORCE; GAMMA RAYS; INFRARED RADIATION; MEMS;

ADAPTIVE CODED APERTURE IMAGING (ACAI); GAMMA RAY BANDS; MICRO-OPTO-ELECTRO-MECHANICAL SYSTEMS (MOEMS); MICROSHUTTER;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 42149121353     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.735894     Document Type: Conference Paper

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