Optical filters with prescribed optical thickness and refined refractive indices

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 4140-4146

  Larouche, Stéphane ^a   Martinu, Ludvik ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

CONVENTIONAL OPTIMIZATION; NARROW BAND FILTER; OPTICAL THICKNESS; QUARTER WAVES; TILTED EDGES; TURNING POINTS;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 54149096156     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.004140     Document Type: Article

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