Wideband four-level transmission gratings with flattened spectral efficiency

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2583-2588

  Pietarinen, Juha ^a   Vallius, Thomas ^a   Turunen, Jari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; EFFICIENCY; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICS; OPTIMIZATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC DIFFRACTION THEORY; GRATING PERIOD; MEAN SPECTRAL WAVELENGTH; PARAMETRIC OPTIMIZATION;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 33645504829     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.002583     Document Type: Article

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