Sensor protection against laser dazzling

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7834, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Ritt, Gunnar ^a   Eberle, Bernd ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER IOSB   (Germany)

Author keywords

laser dazzling; Sensor protection; spatial light modulator; wavelength multiplexing

Indexed keywords

COLOR DISTORTIONS; ELECTROOPTICAL SENSORS; LASER WAVELENGTH; NOVEL CONCEPT; PROTECTION CONCEPTS; PROTECTION MEASURES; SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS; WAVELENGTH MULTIPLEXING;

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; INFRARED DEVICES; LASER SAFETY; LIGHT MODULATION; MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL SENSORS;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 79251618762     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.864960     Document Type: Conference Paper

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