Dielectric sculptured thin films for polarization-discriminatory handedness-inversion of circularly polarized light

Optical Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1596-1602

  Lakhtakia, Akhlesh ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DIELECTRIC FILMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MORPHOLOGY; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL FILMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; THIN FILMS;

SCULPTURED THIN FILMS (STF);

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 0032597627     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.602213     Document Type: Article

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