Integrated optical pickup system for axial dual focus

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 614-621

  Stankovic, Svetomir ^a   Dias, Daniel ^a   Hain, Mathias ^a   Bhattacharya, Shanti ^a   Glöckner, Robert ^a   Karaboué, Chialou ^a   Benmohammadi, Lhoucine ^a   Guessous, Fouad ^a   Wang, Lingli ^a,b   Tschudi, Theo ^a   Ferstl, Margit ^c   Pawlowski, Edgar ^c   Steingrüber, Ralf ^c  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^c FRAUNHOFER HEINRICH HERTZ INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; ETCHING; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PICKUPS;

PHASE RETARDERS;

INTEGRATED OPTICS;

EID: 0009945177     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.000614     Document Type: Article

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