Design of space-variant diffractive polarization elements

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 282-289

  Tervo, Jani ^a   Kettunen, Ville ^a   Honkanen, Marko ^a   Turunen, Jari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIREFRINGENCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

PIXEL STRUCTURES;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 0042073227     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.20.000282     Document Type: Article

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