Performance of normal-incidence molybdenum–yttrium multilayer-coated diffraction grating at a wavelength of 9 nm

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 13, 2002, Pages 2394-2400

  Sae Lao, Benjawan ^a   Bajt, Saša ^a,c   Montcalm, Claude ^a,b   Seely, John F ^d  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Ion Tech Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COATING TECHNIQUES; DOPPLER EFFECT; ETCHING; HOLOGRAPHIC OPTICAL ELEMENTS; HOLOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MULTILAYERS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

HOLOGRAPHIC ION ETCHED BLAZED GRATINGS;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 0036575170     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.002394     Document Type: Article

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