Design, fabrication, and characterization of form-birefringent multilayer polarizing beam splitter

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

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1627-1636

  Tyan, Rong Chung ^a   Salvekar, Atul A ^b   Chou, Hou Pu ^b   Cheng, Chuan Cheng ^b   Scherer, Axel ^b   Sun, Pang Chen ^a   Xu, Fang ^a   Fainman, Yeshayahu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; CHARACTERIZATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ERRORS; FABRICATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICS; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE; POLARIZATION; REFLECTION;

ANISOTROPIC SPECTRAL REFLECTIVITY; EFFECTIVE MEDIUM THEORY; HIGH SPATIAL FREQUENCY MULTILAYER BINARY GRATINGS; POLARIZING BEAM SPLITTERS;

OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS;

EID: 0031185775     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.14.001627     Document Type: Article

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