Tracking novelty filter at 780 nm based on a photorefractive polymer in a two-beam coupling geometry

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1412-1416

  Hendrickx, Eric ^a   Van Steenwinckel, David ^a   Persoons, André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; HOLOGRAPHY; OPTICAL FILTERS; POLYMERS;

PHOTOREFRACTIVE POLYMERS;

PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS;

EID: 0001656357     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.001412     Document Type: Article

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