Bilayer Al wire-grids as broadband and high-performance polarizers

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2323-2334

  Ekinci, Yasin ^a   Solak, Harun H ^a   David, Christian ^a   Sigg, Hans ^a  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LITHOGRAPHY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WIRE;

EXTREME-ULTRAVIOLET INTERFERENCE LITHOGRAPHY; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN ALGORITHM; WIRE-GRIDS;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 33645073009     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.002323     Document Type: Article

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