Wollaston prism-like devices based on blazed dielectric subwavelength gratings

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 25, 2005, Pages 9941-9953

  Haïdar, Riad ^a   Vincent, Grégory ^a   Guérineau, Nicolas ^a   Collin, Stéphane ^b   Velghe, Sabrina ^a   Primot, Jérôme ^a  

^a ONERA   (France)

^b UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; POLARIZATION;

OPTICAL INDEX; POLARIZATION STATES;

PRISMS;

EID: 28944444376     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.009941     Document Type: Article

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