Short period holographic structures for backlight display applications

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 10540-10552

  Caputo, Roberto ^a   De Sio, Luciano ^a   Jak, Martin J J ^a   Hornix, Eefje J ^a   De Boer, Dick K G ^a   Cornelissen, Hugo J ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; HOLOGRAPHIC OPTICAL ELEMENTS; OPTICAL FILTERS;

BACKLIGHT DISPLAY; COLOR FILTERS; COLOR SEPARATING ELEMENT;

DISPLAY DEVICES;

EID: 34548091661     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.010540     Document Type: Article

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