Four-level phase grating generated by combination of two binary gratings through coherent imaging

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 32, 2000, Pages 5936-5939

  Magnusson, Anders ^a   Hård, Sverker ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROELECTRICITY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIQUID CRYSTALS;

COHERENT IMAGING;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 0001107673     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.005936     Document Type: Article

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