Broadband IR polarizing beam splitter using subwavelength-structured one-dimensional photonic-crystal layer embedded in a high-index prism

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 27, 2009, Pages 5121-5126

  Khanfar, H K ^a   Azzam, R M A ^a  

^a UNO College of Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GERMANIUM; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; POLARIZATION; PRISMS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SLOW WAVE STRUCTURES; ZINC COMPOUNDS; ZINC SULFIDE;

ANGLE OF INCIDENCE; EXTERNAL FIELDS; HIGH EXTINCTION RATIOS; IR SPECTRAL RANGE; ONE DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; POLARIZING BEAM SPLITTERS; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTIONS; TOTAL TRANSMISSION;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 70349512049     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.005121     Document Type: Article

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