Design of a binary grating with subwavelength features that acts as a polarizing beam splitter

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 32, 2001, Pages 5898-5905

  Pajewski, Lara ^a   Borghi, Riccardo ^a   Schettini, Giuseppe ^a   Frezza, Fabrizio ^c   Santarsiero, Massimo ^b  

^a Dip Ingegneria Elettronica   (Italy)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ETCHING; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; PERMITTIVITY;

BINARY GRATINGS;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 0038149395     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.005898     Document Type: Article

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