Reduced wavelength-dependent quarter-wave plate fabricated by a multilayered subwavelength structure

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2601-2606

  Yu, Wanji ^a   Mizutani, Akio ^a   Kikuta, Hisao ^b   Konishi, Tsuyoshi ^c  

^a OSAKA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (Japan)

^b Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; MULTILAYERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SPUTTERING; SUBSTRATES;

MASS REPLICATION TECHNOLOGY; PHASE RETARDANCE; QUARTER-WAVE PLATE (QWP); WAVELENGTH;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 33745156779     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.002601     Document Type: Article

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