Development of a mirror backed volume phase grating with potential for large aperture and high damage threshold

Optics Communications

Volumn 260, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 403-414

  Rambo, Patrick ^a   Schwarz, Jens ^a   Smith, Ian ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

High damage threshold; Large aperture gratings; Sol gel

Indexed keywords

AEROGELS; MIRRORS; MULTILAYERS; PHASE MODULATION; POLARIZATION; SOL-GELS; THIN FILMS;

HIGH DAMAGE THRESHOLD; INDEX MODULATIONS; LARGE APERTURE GRATINGS; VOLUME PHASE GRATING;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 33644953604     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2005.11.020     Document Type: Article

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