Fiber based polarization filter for radially and azimuthally polarized light

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 19582-19590

  Jocher, Christoph ^a   Jauregui, Cesar ^a   Voigtländer, Christian ^a   Stutzki, Fabian ^a   Nolte, Stefan ^a   Limpert, Jens ^a,b   Tünnermann, Andreas ^a,b,c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ INSTITUTE JENA   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

FEMTOSECOND PULSED LASER; HIGH NUMERICAL APERTURES; POLARIZATION FILTERS; POLARIZED MODES; PROOF OF PRINCIPLES;

FIBERS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 80053274480     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.019582     Document Type: Article

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