Rigorous coupled-wave analysis for practical planar dielectric gratings: 1. Thickness-changed holograms and some characteristics of diffraction efficiency

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 25, 1998, Pages 5843-5853

  Kamiya, Naohiro ^a  

^a SHIMADZU CORPORATION   (Japan)

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EID: 0001109312     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.005843     Document Type: Article

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