Wave-front engineering by use of transparent elastomeric optical elements

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 23, 1997, Pages 5792-5795

  Rogers, John A ^a   Schueller, Olivier J A ^a   Marzolin, Christian ^a   Whitesides, George M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Elastomer; Modulator; Phase grating; Spatial light modulator

Indexed keywords

EID: 5844331834     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.005792     Document Type: Article

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