Achromatic four quadrant phase mask using the dispersion of form birefringence

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4860, Issue , 2002, Pages 182-191

  Mawet, D ^a   Lenaerts, C ^a   Moreau, V ^a   Renotte, Y ^a   Rouan, D ^b   Surdej, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

4 quadrant phase mask; Achromaticity; Coronography; Form birefringence; Subwavelength gratings; ZOGs

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; BIREFRINGENCE; COHERENT LIGHT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PHASE SHIFT; PLANETS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ACHROMATIC FOUR QUADRANT PHASE MASK; ACHROMATICITY; CORONAGRAPHY; FORM BIREFRINGENCE; SUBWAVELENGTH GRATINGS; ZEROTH ORDER GRATINGS;

OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 0037950249     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.457918     Document Type: Conference Paper

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