High speed adaptive liquid microlens array

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 18180-18187

  Murade, C U ^a   Van Der Ende, D ^a   Mugele, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; WETTING;

COMPOUND EYE; CONTACT LINES; CONVENTIONAL DESIGN; DEVICE ARCHITECTURES; DRIVING MECHANISM; ELECTRO WETTING; FOCAL LENGTHS; LARGE ARRAYS; LIQUID MICRO-LENS; LIQUID MICROLENSE; MICRO-LENS; NOVEL CONCEPT; PARALLELIZATIONS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; SPEED ADAPTIVE; SYNCHRONOUS MODULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

MICROLENSES;

EID: 84864578752     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.018180     Document Type: Article

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