Application of wire-grid polarizers to projection displays

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 31, 2003, Pages 6335-6341

  Yu, Xing Jie ^a   Kwok, Hoi Sing ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

WIRE GRID POLARIZERS (WGP);

OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS;

EID: 0242440736     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.006335     Document Type: Article

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