Wideband two-port beam splitter of a binary fused-silica phase grating

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 4004-4008

  Wang, Bo ^a   Zhou, Changhe ^a   Feng, Jijun ^a   Ru, Huayi ^a   Zheng, Jiangjun ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINS; EFFICIENCY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; PRISMS; SILICA; THERMAL EXPANSION;

BEAM-SPLITTER GRATINGS; HOLOGRAPHIC RECORDINGS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA DRY ETCHING; LOW COEFFICIENT OF THERMAL EXPANSIONS; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; RIGOROUS COUPLED WAVE ANALYSIS; TWO-BEAM INTERFERENCE; WIDEBAND TRANSMISSIONS;

FUSED SILICA;

EID: 54149084390     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.004004     Document Type: Article

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