Analysis and synthesis of circular diffractive lens with local linear grating model and rigorous coupled-wave theory

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1562-1568

  Sheng, Yunlong ^a   Feng, Dazeng ^a,b   Larochelle, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b Optiwave Corporation   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diffractive lens; Optimization; Rigorous coupled wave analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001381271     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.14.001562     Document Type: Article

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