Metal-mesh achromatic half-wave plate for use at submillimeter wavelengths

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 33, 2008, Pages 6251-6256

  Pisano, Giampaolo ^a   Savini, Giorgio ^b   Ade, Peter A R ^b   Haynes, Vic ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; GEOMETRY; MESH GENERATION; OPTICAL DEVICES; PHASE SHIFT; PLATE METAL; POLARIZATION; SPACE OPTICS; SUBMILLIMETER WAVES;

ACHROMATIC HALF-WAVE PLATES; ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENT; FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROMETERS; FUNCTION OF FREQUENCY; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; POLARIZATION BEHAVIOR; SUBMILLIMETER WAVELENGTHS; TRANSMISSION LINE MODELING;

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

EID: 60649109514     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.006251     Document Type: Article

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