Adjustable refractive power from diffractive moiré elements

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 3722-3730

  Bernet, Stefan ^a   Ritsch Marte, Monika ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICS;

AXICONS; FRESNEL LENS; OPTICAL POWER; REFRACTIVE POWER; SPIRAL PHASE PLATES;

MOLECULAR PHYSICS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; ROTATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LENSES; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; ROTATION; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 51949090591     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.003722     Document Type: Article

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