Linear focusing by a plane grating with curved grooves

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 28, 2004, Pages 5350-5355

  Ferrari, José A ^a   Garbusi, Eugenio ^a   Frins, Erna M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; FOURIER OPTICS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MIRRORS; MONOCHROMATORS;

CURVED GROOVES; FRESNEL ZONE; INCIDENCE ANGLE; LINEAR FOCUSING;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 5444220881     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.005350     Document Type: Article

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