Polarizing color filter based on a subwavelength metal-dielectric grating

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1356-1363

  Ye, Yan ^a   Zhou, Yun ^a   Zhang, Heng ^a   Chen, Linsen ^a  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; COLOR; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; LIGHT POLARIZATION; METALS; RECYCLING; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

BROADBAND TRANSMISSION; EQUIVALENT REFRACTIVE INDEX; POLARIZATION EXTINCTION RATIO; REFLECTION EFFICIENCY; RIGOROUS COUPLED WAVE ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION EFFICIENCY; TRANSVERSE ELECTRIC POLARIZED LIGHTS; TRANSVERSE MAGNETIC POLARIZATION;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 79958712959     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.001356     Document Type: Article

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