Diffractive optical isolator made of high-efficiency dielectric gratings only

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 18, 2002, Pages 3558-3566

  Glaser, Tilman ^a   Schröter, Siegmund ^a   Bartelt, Hartmut ^a   Fuchs, Hans Jörg ^b   Kley, Ernst Bernhard ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LIGHT EXTINCTION; LIGHT POLARIZATION;

DIELECTRIC GRATINGS; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ISOLATORS;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 0037141937     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.003558     Document Type: Article

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