Design and application of subwavelength diffractive lenses for integration with infrared photodetectors

Optical Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 870-878

  Prather, Dennis W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; INFRARED DETECTORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROOPTICS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; VECTORS;

COUPLED WAVE METHOD; SUBWAVELENGTH DIFFRACTIVE LENSES;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 0032676329     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.602256     Document Type: Article

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