Specular and nonspecular, thickness-dependent, spectral holes in a slanted chiral sculptured thin film with a central twist defect

Optics Communications

Volumn 215, Issue 1-3, 2002, Pages 79-92

  Wang, Fei ^a   Lakhtakia, Akhlesh ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Chirality; Circular Bragg phenomenon; Rayleigh Wood anomaly; Sculptured thin films; Spectral reflection hole; Specular transmission hole; Structural handedness

Indexed keywords

DEFECTS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MIRRORS; OPTICAL FILMS;

SPECTRAL HOLES;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 0036460816     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(02)02204-6     Document Type: Article

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