Achromatic phase retarder applied to MWIR & LWIR dual-band

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1695-1703

  Kang, Guoguo ^a   Tan, Qiaofeng ^a   Wang, Xiaoling ^b   Jin, Guofan ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHROMATIC PHASE RETARDER; ACHROMATIC QUARTER-WAVE PLATES; DESIGN METHOD; DIELECTRIC GRATING; DUAL-BAND; DUAL-BAND IR; EFFECTIVE MEDIUM THEORIES; FAST AXIS; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; RETARDANCE; SIMULATION RESULT; STRONG FORM; SUB-WAVE LENGTH GRATING; SUB-WAVELENGTH;

LASER ACCESSORIES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFRARED RADIATION; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INFRARED RAYS; OPTICAL DEVICES; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 75249097308     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.001695     Document Type: Article

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