Adjustable hybrid diffractive/refractive achromatic lens

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 7468-7479

  Valley, Pouria ^a   Savidis, Nickolaos ^a   Schwiegerling, Jim ^a   Dodge, Mohammad Reza ^a   Peyman, Gholam ^a   Peyghambarian, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; SILICONES;

AC VOLTAGE; ACHROMATIC LENS; ACHROMATS; CHROMATIC ABERRATION; DIFFRACTIVE LENS; FLAT GLASS; FLUID CHAMBER; FLUID VOLUMES; FOCAL LENGTHS; FOCAL POSITIONS; FRESNEL ZONES; HIGH EFFICIENCY; MEMBRANE CURVATURE; OPHTHALMIC DEVICES; PHASE WRAPPING; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE MEMBRANE; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; PUMP SYSTEM; RE-ESTABLISHING; REFRACTIVE LENS; SWITCHING TIME; THIN LIQUIDS; VARIABLE FOCAL LENGTH;

FOCUSING;

BAYSILON; DIMETICONE; GLASS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; ELASTICITY; ELECTRODE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASER; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MATERIALS TESTING; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS;

DIMETHYLPOLYSILOXANES; ELASTICITY; ELECTRODES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GLASS; LASERS; LENSES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS;

EID: 79953900406     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.007468     Document Type: Article

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