Dielectric omnidirectional visible reflector

Optics Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 15, 2001, Pages 1197-1199

  Deopura, M ^a   Ullal, C K ^a   Temelkuran, B ^a   Fink, Y ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OMNIDIRECTIONAL MIRRORS;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRON BEAMS; ENERGY GAP; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

MIRRORS;

EID: 0037585299     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.26.001197     Document Type: Article

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