Wire-grid diffraction gratings used as polarizing beam splitter for visible light and applied in liquid crystal on silicon

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2303-2320

  Xu, M ^a,b   Urbach, H P ^a,b   De Boer, D K G ^a   Cornelissen, H J ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; SILICON;

LIQUID-CRYSTAL DEVICES; POLARIZATION-SENSITIVE DEVICES; POLARIZING BEAM SPLITTERS; WIDE-GRID DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 21244498219     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.002303     Document Type: Article

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