Optical characteristics of stretched silver island multilayers for submicrometer-thick optical polarizing films

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 2564-2569

  Baba, Kazutaka ^a   Yamaki, Kizuku ^a   Miyagi, Mitsunobu ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 0041731505     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.002564     Document Type: Article

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