Design of transmission blazed binary gratings for optical limiting with the form-birefringence theory

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 3743-3750

  Nan, Lu ^a   Dengfeng, Kuang ^a   Guoguang, Mu ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINS; BIREFRINGENCE; DIFFRACTION; DIFFRACTION EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; POLARIZATION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BINARY GRATINGS; DEVIATION ANGLES; FORM BIREFRINGENCE; HIGHER EFFICIENCY; OPTICAL LIMITING; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SUB-WAVELENGTH STRUCTURES; TM POLARIZATION;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 51949108439     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.003743     Document Type: Article

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