Design of polarization gratings for broadband illumination

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 3055-3067

  Lajunen, Hanna ^a   Turunen, Jari ^a   Tervo, Jani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; BROADBAND NETWORKS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BROADBAND FIELDS; BROADBAND ILLUMINATION; DIFFRACTION EFFICIENCY; POLARIZATION GRATINGS;

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 21244439931     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.003055     Document Type: Article

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