Transmittance enhancement of a wire-grid polarizer by antireflection coating

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 316-320

  Yamada, Itsunari ^a   Kintaka, Kenji ^a   Nishii, Junji ^a   Akioka, Satoshi ^b   Yamagishi, Yutaka ^b   Saito, Mitsunori ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b HORIBA LTD   (Japan)

^c RYUKOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS; COATINGS; DISPLAY DEVICES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; POLARIZATION; SILICIDES; SILICON;

ANTIREFLECTION; EXTINCTION RATIOS; POLARIZATION FUNCTIONS; RIGOROUS COUPLED WAVE ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION SPECTRUMS; TUNGSTEN SILICIDES (WSI); WAVELENGTH RANGES; WIRE GRID POLARIZERS;

WIRE;

EID: 60849118672     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.000316     Document Type: Article

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