Optical characterization of adaptive fluidic silicone-membrane lenses

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 11813-11821

  Schneider, Florian ^a   Dra Heim, Jan ^a   Kamberger, Robert ^a   Waibel, Philipp ^a   Wallrabe, Ulrike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

(080.3630) Lenses; (110.1080) Active or adaptive optics

Indexed keywords

LENSES; MEMBRANES; RAY TRACING; SILICONES; WAVEFRONTS;

EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS; FABRICATION PROCESS; HOMOGENEOUS MEMBRANE; OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION; OPTICAL PERFORMANCE; ORIENTATION DEPENDENT; SILICONE MEMBRANE; WAVEFRONT ERRORS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

BAYSILON; DIMETICONE; GLASS; OXYGEN; SILICONE DERIVATIVE;

APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIMETHYLPOLYSILOXANES; EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GLASS; LENSES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; OXYGEN; SILICONES;

EID: 67650517733     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.011813     Document Type: Article

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