Generation of nanosized optical beams by use of butted gratings with small numbers of periods

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 3085-3096

  Hasegawa, Shin Ya ^a   Tawa, Fumihiro ^a  

^a FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (OPTICAL); DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; MAGNETIC RECORDING; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; RESONANCE; THROUGHPUT;

BUTTED; NANOSIZED; OPTICAL BEAMS; TRANSVERSE RESONANCE;

OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS;

EID: 2542549769     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.003085     Document Type: Article

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