High-resolution thin "guest-host" micropolarizer arrays for visible imaging polarimetry

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 5565-5573

  Zhao, Xiaojin ^a   Boussaid, Farid ^b   Bermak, Amine ^a   Chigrinov, Vladimir G ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZO DYES; ELLIPSOMETRY; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; POLARIMETERS;

CMOS COMPATIBLE; FABRICATION TECHNOLOGIES; GUEST-HOST; HIGH RESOLUTION; LOW COSTS; NEMATIC LIQUIDS; ORDER PARAMETER; PHOTO-ALIGNMENT; PIXEL PITCH; POLARIZATION IMAGING; SELECTIVE ETCHING; VISIBLE IMAGING; VISIBLE SPECTRA;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 79952591301     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.005565     Document Type: Article

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