Simulation of electrowetting lens and prism arrays for wavefront compensation

Applied Optics

Volumn 51, Issue 27, 2012, Pages 6618-6623

  Gopinath, Juliet T ^a   Bright, Victor M ^a   Cogswell, Carol C ^a   Niederriter, Robert D ^b   Watson, Alexander ^a   Zahreddine, Ramzi ^a   Cormack, Robert H ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROOPTICS; PISTONS; PRISMS; WAVEFRONTS;

CURVATURE CORRECTION; ELECTRO WETTING; FOCAL LENGTHS; MICRO-LENS ARRAYS; NOVEL APPLICATIONS; STREHL RATIO; WAVEFRONT COMPENSATION; WAVEFRONT CORRECTION;

WETTING;

EID: 84866693717     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.006618     Document Type: Article

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