A modular approach to the analytic calculation of spectral phase for grisms and other refractive/diffractive structures

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 18004-18016

  Durfee, Charles G ^a   Squier, Jeff A ^a   Kane, Steve ^b  

^a Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

^b Horiba Jobin Yvon   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS;

ANALYTIC CALCULATIONS; ANALYTIC EXPRESSIONS; APPROXIMATE EXPRESSIONS; MODULAR APPROACH; OPTICAL STRUCTURES; PARALLEL INTERFACES; RAY-TRACING MODEL; WIDE BANDWIDTH;

OPTICS;

EID: 55349116421     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.018004     Document Type: Article

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