Symmetrically coated pellicle beam splitters for dual quarter-wave retardation in reflection and transmission

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 235-238

  Mahmoud, Fadi A ^a,b  

^a UNO College of Engineering   (United States)

^b Adaptec Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT SOURCES; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL COATINGS; PHASE SHIFT; POLARIZATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

QUARTER-WAVE RETARDERS (QWR);

OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS;

EID: 0036279537     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.000235     Document Type: Article

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