Two-spherical-wave ultraviolet interferometer for making an antireflective subwavelength periodic pattern on a curved surface

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 32, 2010, Pages 6268-6275

  Mizutani, Akio ^a   Takahira, Shumpei ^a   Kikuta, Hisao ^a  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETERS; PHOTORESISTS;

ANTI-REFLECTIVE; EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATIONS; PERIODIC PATTERN; PHOTORESIST PATTERNS; RADIUS OF CURVATURE; SPHERICAL SURFACE; SPHERICAL WAVES; SUBWAVELENGTH STRUCTURED SURFACE;

SPHERES;

EID: 78149460108     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.006268     Document Type: Article

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