Almost perfect blazing by photonic crystal rod gratings

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 15, 2001, Pages 2417-2422

  Popov, Evgeny ^a   Bozhkov, Bozhan ^b   Nevière, Michel ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; PHOTONS;

LIGHT DIFFRACTION;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 0001726551     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.002417     Document Type: Article

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