Hemispherical digital optical condensers with no lenses, mirrors, or moving parts

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 6948-6957

  Dominguez, Daniel ^a,b   Molina, Luis ^c   Desai, Darshan B ^a   Loughlin, Trevor O' ^a   Bernussi, Ayrton A ^b   De Peralta, Luis Grave ^a,b  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Texas Tech University   (United States)

^c LJ Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

FAR-FIELD; INFRARED SPECTRAL REGIONS; MINIMUM FEATURE SIZES; MOVING PARTS; SIMPLE METHOD; SUBWAVELENGTH RESOLUTION; VISIBLE FREQUENCIES;

LENSES;

EID: 84896989202     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.006948     Document Type: Article

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