Novel spectral range expansion method for liquid crystal adaptive optics

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 21687-21696

  Mu, Quanquan ^a   Cao, Zhaoliang ^a   Hu, Lifa ^a   Liu, Yonggang ^a   Peng, Zenghui ^a   Xuan, Li ^a  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS   (China)

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Indexed keywords

DENSE WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; ENERGY DISSIPATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; POLARIZATION; VISION AIDS;

ADAPTIVE CORRECTIONS; ADAPTIVE OPTICS SYSTEMS; DIFFRACTION-LIMITED RESOLUTION; ENERGY LOSS; LIQUID CRYSTAL WAVEFRONTS; NOVEL METHODS; OPEN LOOP CONTROL; OPTICAL LAYOUTS; POLARIZATION DEPENDENCE; SINGLE FIBER; SPECTRAL RANGE; SYSTEM ENERGY; WAVEBANDS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 78049494802     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.021687     Document Type: Article

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