Optical properties of a bio-inspired gradient refractive index polymer lens

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 11540-11547

  Beadie, G ^a   Shirk, James S ^a   Rosenberg, A ^a   Lane, Paul A ^a   Fleet, E ^a   Kamdar, A R ^b   Jin, Y ^b   Ponting, M ^b   Kazmierczak, T ^b   Yang, Y ^b   Hiltner, A ^b   Baer, E ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; FOCUSING; GLASS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; POLYMERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

FOCUSING PROPERTIES; GRADIENT INDEX LENS; GRADIENT REFRACTIVE INDEX; HOMOGENEOUS GLASS; POLYMER COMPOSITE MATERIALS; POLYMER LENS; SPATIAL FREQUENCY; SPHERICAL ABERRATIONS;

LENSES;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CORNEA; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; HUMAN; LENS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; CORNEA; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; LENSES; POLYMERS;

EID: 47849113189     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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