Optically tunable guided-mode resonance filter

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 28, 2006, Pages 7286-7293

  Dobbs, Dennis W ^a,b   Cunningham, Brian T ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b CDM Optics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); DYES; LIGHTING;

DYE-DOPED REGIONS; GUIDED-MODE RESONANCE FILTER (GMRF); INCIDENT LASER BEAM;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 33750861212     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.007286     Document Type: Article

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