Dual-function beam splitter of a subwavelength fused-silica grating

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 2697-2701

  Feng, Jijun ^a   Zhou, Changhe ^a   Zheng, Jiangjun ^a   Cao, Hongchao ^a   Lv, Peng ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; DIFFRACTION EFFICIENCY; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; EFFICIENCY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; POLARIZATION; PRISMS; SILICA;

GRATING PARAMETER; HOLOGRAPHIC RECORDINGS; RIGOROUS COUPLED WAVE ANALYSIS; SIMPLIFIED MODAL METHODS; TE POLARIZATIONS; THEORETICAL VALUES; TM POLARIZATION; TOTAL DIFFRACTION EFFICIENCY;

FUSED SILICA;

EID: 67649294498     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.002697     Document Type: Article

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