Implementation of field lens arrays in beam-deflecting microlens array telescopes

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 25, 2004, Pages 4854-4861

  Duparré, Jacques ^a   Radtke, Daniela ^a   Dannberg, Peter ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; PHASE MODULATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TELESCOPES; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WAVE EFFECTS;

GALILEAN ARRANGEMENTS; MICROLENSE ARRAY (MLA); MULTIMODE FIBERS (MMF);

MICROLENSES;

EID: 4544336033     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.004854     Document Type: Article

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