Beam steering performance of electrowetting microprism arrays

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7339, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Han, Wei ^a   Haus, Joseph W ^a   Mcmanamon, Paul ^a   Heikenfeld, Jason ^b   Smith, Neil R ^b   Yang, Jia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

^b 705 Engineering Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam steering; Electrowetting; Far field diffraction; Far field efficiency

Indexed keywords

BEAM STEERING; DIFFRACTION ANGLE; DIFFRACTION PEAKS; ELECTROWETTING; FAR-FIELD; FAR-FIELD DIFFRACTION; FAR-FIELD EFFICIENCY; INPUT FIELD; MICRO-PRISM ARRAYS; MICROPRISMS; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; OPTICAL BEAMS;

AEROSPACE APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL FILTERS;

DIFFRACTION EFFICIENCY;

EID: 69749103386     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.822120     Document Type: Conference Paper

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