White LED light coupling into light guides with diffraction gratings

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2623-2630

  Siitonen, Samuli ^a   Laakkonen, Pasi ^a   Vahimaa, Pasi ^a   Kuittinen, Markku ^a   Tossavainen, Noora ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

COLOR COORDINATES; INCOUPLED SPECTRA; LIGHT GUIDE; VISIBLE SPECTRUM;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

EID: 33745160338     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.002623     Document Type: Article

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