Polarization controller based on embedded optical transformation

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 17206-17213

  Zhai, Tianrui ^a   Zhou, Ying ^a   Zhou, Jing ^a   Liu, Dahe ^a,b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN BEAMS; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; POLARIZATION;

NON-LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; OPTICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; POLARIZATION CONTROLLERS; POLARIZATION SPLITTERS; SPHERICAL WAVES; TRANSFORMATION FORMULA; TRANSFORMATION OPTICS;

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 70349681049     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.017206     Document Type: Article

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