Dichroic rugate filters based on birefringent porous silicon

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 15531-15539

  Ishikura, Nobuyuki ^a   Fujii, Minora ^a   Nishida, Kohei ^a   Hayashi, Shinji ^a   Diener, Joachim ^b  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; BIREFRINGENCE; LIGHT POLARIZATION; POLARIZATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICON; SILICON WAFERS;

BIREFRINGENT POROUS SILICON; COMPLEX PROPERTIES; HIGHER ORDER HARMONICS; IN-PLANE BIREFRINGENCE; POLARIZATION DIRECTION; POROUS SILICON LAYERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX VARIATIONS; TRANSMISSION MEASUREMENTS;

POROUS SILICON;

SILICON;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FILTRATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTERS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FILTRATION; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPTICS; SILICON;

EID: 54749100038     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.015531     Document Type: Article

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