Effective medium approximation of anisotropic lamellar nanogratings based on Fourier factorization

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 3114-3128

  Foldyna, Martin ^a   Ossikovski, Razvigor ^a   De Martino, Antonello ^a   Drevillon, Bernard ^a   Postava, Kamil ^b   Ciprian, Dalibor ^b   Pištora, Jaromír ^b   Watanabe, Koki ^c  

^a LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE DES INTERFACES ET DES COUCHES MINCES   (France)

^b VSB TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF OSTRAVA   (Czech Republic)

^c FUKUOKA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; FOURIER OPTICS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

EFFECTIVE MEDIUM APPROXIMATION (EMA); FOURIER HARMONICS; OPTICAL PARAMETERS; RIGOROUS COUPLED WAVE ANALYSIS (RCWA);

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 33645826055     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.003114     Document Type: Article

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