Micro-optical polarizer with high efficiency

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 2023-2036

  Ruffieux, Patrick ^a   Scharf, Toralf ^a   Herzig, Hans Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS; MICROLENSES; MICROOPTICS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

INDEX MATCHING; MICRO-OPTICAL POLARIZERS;

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIQUID CRYSTAL; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LENSES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MINIATURIZATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 39049095600     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.002023     Document Type: Article

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