Dual-tier thin film polymer polarization imaging sensor

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 19292-19303

  Gruev, Viktor ^a   Van Der Spiege, Jan ^b   Engheta, Nader ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL RECORDING; PIXELS; POLARIZATION; SENSORS;

CMOS IMAGE SENSOR; FOCAL PLANE; HUMAN EYE; IMAGING ARRAYS; IMAGING SENSORS; LINEARLY POLARIZED LIGHT; LOW POWER; POLARIZATION FILTERS; POLARIZATION IMAGING; STOKES PARAMETERS; THIN FILM POLYMERS;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EYE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EYE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OCULAR PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; POLYMERS;

EID: 77956368222     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.019292     Document Type: Article

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