Embedded metal-wire nanograting and its application in an optical polarization beam splitter/combiner

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 312-316

  Wang, Dingli ^a,b,c   Liu, Wen ^b,c,d   Xiao, Qingming ^a,b,c   Shi, Jing ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WUHAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c State Key Laboratory for New Optical Communication Technologies and Networks   (China)

^d HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; WAVELENGTH;

EXTINCTION RATIO; METAL WIRE NANOGRATING;

WIRE;

EID: 41549084235     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.000312     Document Type: Article

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