Broadband wide-angle polarization converter for LCD backlight

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 2882-2887

  Tsai, Chang Ching ^a   Wu, Shin Tson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS;

LINEAR POLARIZATION; METALLIC GRATINGS; OPTICAL EFFICIENCY; POLARIZATION BEAM SPLITTERS; POLARIZATION CONVERSION; POLARIZATION CONVERTERS; POLARIZATION ROTATION; SURFACE PLASMON WAVES;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 49749151041     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.002882     Document Type: Article

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