Fabrication of a dual-tier thin film micropolarization array

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 4994-5007

  Gruev, Viktor ^a   Ortu, Alessandro ^a   Lazarus, Nathan ^a   Van Der Spiegel, Jan ^a   Engheta, Nader ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT EXTINCTION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MICROARRAYS; OPTICAL FILTERS; REACTIVE ION ETCHING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; THIN FILM DEVICES;

GREEN VISIBLE SPECTRUM; RED SPECTRUM; STOKES PARAMETERS; THIN FILM POLARIZATION FILTERS;

OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION;

EID: 34247193566     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.004994     Document Type: Article

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