Achromatic switchable polarization rotators

Optical Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 952-956

  Hariharan, Parameswaran ^{a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i}   Ciddor, Philip E ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b SPIE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^e Royal Photographic Society   (United Kingdom)

^f International Commission of Optics   (Australia)

^g Asia Pacific Optics Federation   (Australia)

^h Australian Institute of Physics   (Australia)

ⁱ Institute of Physics   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Achromatic; Light valves; Liquid crystals; Polarization; Rotator

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006614064     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601261     Document Type: Article

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