Liquid Crystal Tunable Polarization Filter for Target Detection Applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6972, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Winker, Bruce ^a   Gu, Dong Feng ^a   Wen, Bing ^a   Zachery, Karen ^b   Mansell, John ^a   Taber, Donald ^a   Sage, Keith ^a   Gunning III, William ^a   Aguilar, Mario ^b  

^a ROCKWELL SCIENTIFIC COMPANY   (United States)

^b Teledyne Scientific and Imaging LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Broadband polarimetric imager; Liquid crystal; Polarization rotator; Target detection

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; DETECTORS; FLUIDS; LIGHT SOURCES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MEASUREMENTS; METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS; MICROFLUIDICS; PIGMENTS; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; POWDERS; REMOTE SENSING; SENSORS; SPACE OPTICS; STEREOCHEMISTRY; TARGET DRONES; TARGETS;

ACCEPTANCE ANGLES; CENTER WAVELENGTH (CW); CONTRAST RATIO (CR); CRYSTAL COMPONENTS; CURRENT STATE; DESIGN USES; ELECTRONICALLY TUNABLE; IMAGING POLARIMETERS; INCOMING LIGHT; LINEAR POLARIZER (LP); MAN MADE OBJECTS; MECHANICAL MOVING PARTS; MONOLITHIC ARCHITECTURES; NATURAL MATERIALS; POLARIMETRIC IMAGING; POLARIMETRIC SENSORS; POLARIZATION FILTERING; POLARIZATION SIGNATURES; RESPONSE TIME; SENSOR RESOLUTION; SMOOTHER SURFACES; TARGET DETECTIONS; UNIQUE FEATURES;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 44949103058     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.779997     Document Type: Conference Paper

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