Low-cost fabrication of form-birefringent quarter-wave plates

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 16334-16342

  Päivänranta, Birgit ^a   Passilly, Nicolas ^a   Pietarinen, Juha ^a,b   Laakkonen, Pasi ^a,b   Kuittinen, Markku ^a   Tervo, Jani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b Nanocomp Ltd   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; OPTICAL DEVICES;

DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; DESIGN WAVELENGTH; FABRICATION PARAMETERS; LOW COST FABRICATION; MOULDING PROCESS; QUARTER WAVE-PLATE; RIGOROUS DIFFRACTION THEORY; SINGLE-STEP;

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 54249138149     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.016334     Document Type: Article

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