Electrowetting lenses for compensating phase and curvature distortion in arrayed laser systems

Applied Optics

Volumn 52, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 3172-3177

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; ADAPTIVE OPTICS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LIQUIDS; WAVEFRONTS; WETTING;

COMPENSATING PHASE; ELECTRO WETTING; LASER SYSTEMS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL ARRAYS; OPTICAL PATH LENGTHS; PHASE DISTORTIONS; TUNABLE FOCUS; WAVE-FRONT CURVATURE;

LENSES;

EID: 84878434275     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.52.003172     Document Type: Article

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