H-PDLC based waveform controllable optical choppers for FDMF microscopy

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 2216-2224

  Zheng, Jihong ^a   Sun, Guoqiang ^a   Jiang, Yanmeng ^a   Wang, Tingting ^a   Huang, Aiqing ^a   Zhang, Yunbo ^a   Tang, Pingyu ^a   Zhuang, Songlin ^a   Liu, Yanjun ^b   Yin, Stuart ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHANGHAI FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CAPACITY; LIQUID CRYSTALS;

BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES; CONTROLLABLE WAVEFORMS; DYNAMIC STUDIES; FLUORESCENT MICROSCOPY; FREQUENCY DIVISION; HOLOGRAPHIC POLYMER DISPERSED LIQUID CRYSTAL; INTEGRATION CAPABILITY; MECHANICAL MOTIONS; MULTIPLE-CHANNEL; OPTICAL CHOPPER; PARALLEL DETECTION; WAVE FORMS;

INFRARED SPECTROMETERS;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM; REFRACTOMETRY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHTING; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MICRO-ELECTRICAL-MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 79851479285     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.002216     Document Type: Article

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