Analysis of throughput for multilayer infrared meanderline waveplates

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 13345-13360

  Wadsworth, Samuel L ^a   Boreman, Glenn D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MULTILAYERS; OPTICAL MULTILAYERS;

FREQUENCY-SELECTIVE; IMPEDANCE MATCHINGS; INFRARED FREQUENCIES; MEANDER LINE; MULTI-LAYERED; NUMERICAL DATA; OPTICAL POLARIZATION; PHASE OFFSETS; QUARTER WAVE-PLATE; QUARTER WAVES; SIMULATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS; SINGLE LAYER; WAVE COMPONENTS; WAVEPLATES;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTRONICS; INFRARED RADIATION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; POLAROGRAPHY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIREFRINGENCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTRONICS; INFRARED RAYS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; POLAROGRAPHY;

EID: 77953815725     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.013345     Document Type: Article

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