Achromatic half-wave plate for submillimeter instruments in cosmic microwave background astronomy: Modeling and simulation

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 35, 2006, Pages 8907-8915

  Savini, Giorgio ^a   Pisano, Giampaolo ^a   Ade, Peter A R ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MICROWAVES; SUBMILLIMETER WAVES;

ANTIREFLECTION COATING; MULTIPLE-PLATE BIREFRINGENT DEVICES; SUBMILLIMETER INSTRUMENTS;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 33846225676     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.008907     Document Type: Article

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