Photoanisotropic polarization gratings beyond the small recording angle regime

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 6703-6721

  Xu, Man ^a,c   De Boer, Dick K G ^b   Van Heesch, Chris M ^b   Wachters, Arthur J H ^a   Urbach, H Paul ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PARTICLE BEAMS;

HOLOGRAPHIC RECORDINGS; NOVEL METHODS; POLARIZATION GRATINGS; POLARIZATION STATE; POLARIZED BEAMS; RIGOROUS DIFFRACTION THEORY;

POLARIZATION;

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; REFRACTOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, INTERFERENCE; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 77950207468     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.006703     Document Type: Article

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