Wide-view circular polarizer consisting of a linear polarizer and two biaxial films

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 26, 2005, Pages 10777-10794

  Hong, Qi ^a   Wu, Thomas X ^a   Lu, Ruibo ^b   Wu, Shin Tson ^b  

^a University of Central Florida   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLARIZATION; REFLECTION;

AIR-INTERFACE SURFACE REFLECTIONS; BIAXIAL FILMS; LINEAR POLARIZER; OPTIMAL PARAMETERS;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 29244437828     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.010777     Document Type: Article

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