Large bandwidth, highly efficient optical gratings through high index materials

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 4268-4283

  Rathgen, Helmut ^a   Offerhaus, H L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DIFFRACTION; DIFFRACTION EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY; FUSED SILICA; SILICA; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

CLASSICAL SCATTERINGS; DIELECTRIC GRATING; DIFFRACTION CHARACTERISTICS; HIGH INDEX MATERIALS; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; SPECTRAL BANDWIDTH; TRANSMISSION GEOMETRIES; TRANSMISSION GRATINGS;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 62549132040     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.004268     Document Type: Article

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