Analysis and design of wide-angle foveated optical systems based on transmissive liquid crystal spatial light modulators

Optical Engineering

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Curatu, George ^a   Harvey, James E ^b  

^a LightPath Technologies   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

aberration correction; adaptive optics; foveated imaging; liquid crystal spatial light modulators (SLMs); wide angle lenses

Indexed keywords

ABERRATION CORRECTION; ANALYSIS AND DESIGN; FOVEATED IMAGING; LIQUID CRYSTAL SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS; LIQUID CRYSTAL SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS (SLMS); SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS; THEORETICAL STUDY; WIDE-ANGLE LENS;

IMAGE QUALITY; LENSES; LIGHT; LIGHT MODULATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 77953804588     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3122006     Document Type: Article

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