Compact beam expander with linear gratings

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1236-1240

  Shechter, Revital ^a   Amitai, Yaakov ^a   Friesem, Asher A ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLAT PANEL DISPLAYS; LIGHTING; MONOCHROMATORS; OPTICAL RECORDING;

BEAM EXPANDER; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENTS (DOE);

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

ARTICLE; OPTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS;

EID: 0036489384     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.001236     Document Type: Article

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