Form-birefringent space-variant inhomogeneous medium element for shaping point-spread functions

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1777-1784

  Tsai, Chia Ho ^a   Levy, Uriel ^a   Pang, Lin ^a   Fainman, Yeshaiahu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; ETCHING; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); ION BEAMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION;

EXTINCTION RATIO; POLARIZATION CONVERSION; SPACE-VARIANT INHOMOGENEOUS MEDIUM (SVIM); SUBSTRATE-AIR INTERFACES;

OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

EID: 33645782558     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.001777     Document Type: Article

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