Concentric ring metal grating for generating radially polarized light

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 2451-2457

  Ghadyani, Z ^a,b   Vartiainen, I ^c   Harder, I ^b   Iff, W ^a   Berger, A ^a   Lindlein, N ^a   Kuittinen, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; LIGHT POLARIZATION;

CIRCULARLY POLARIZED LIGHT; CONCENTRIC RINGS; METAL GRATING; RADIALLY POLARIZED; SUB-WAVELENGTH; VISIBLE LIGHT;

LIGHT;

EID: 79958753936     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.002451     Document Type: Article

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