Design of a grating-based thin-film filter for broadband spectropolarimetry

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 31, 2003, Pages 6321-6326

  Kim, Donghyun ^a,b   Burke, Kieron ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

SPECTROPOLARIMETRY;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 0242693125     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.006321     Document Type: Article

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