Demonstration of focus-tunable diffractive Moiré-lenses

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 6955-6966

  Bernet, Stefan ^a   Harm, Walter ^a   Ritsch Marte, Monika ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES;

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL REALIZATIONS; FLEXIBLE BEAM; FRESNEL ZONES; GLASS SLIDES; IMAGING APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL LENS; REFRACTIVE POWER;

LENSES;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LENSES; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 84875723118     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.006955     Document Type: Article

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