Limits on the performance of dispersive thin-film stacks

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 3349-3357

  Gerken, Martina ^a,b   Miller, David A B ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DEMULTIPLEXING; DISPERSION (WAVES); LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; MULTILAYERS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PRISMS;

DISPERSION COMPENSATION; MULTILAYER STACKS; PHOTONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; THIN-FILM STACKS;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 20544461942     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.003349     Document Type: Article

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