Novel design and alignment of wire-grid diffraction gratings on a visible focal plane array

Optical Engineering

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Miller, Darren A ^a   Wilson, Daniel W ^b   Dereniak, Eustace L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

alignment; diffraction; FPA; micro optics; pattern recognition; polarimetry; polarization; Stokes

Indexed keywords

FPA; NOVEL DESIGN; ON CHIPS; OPTO-MECHANICAL ELEMENTS; POLARIZATION STATE; RAW IMAGE DATA; REDUCED CROSS-TALK; STOKES; TRANSLATIONAL ALIGNMENT; WIRE GRID POLARIZERS;

DIFFRACTION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FOCAL PLANE ARRAYS; MICROOPTICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PIXELS; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; WIRE; ALIGNMENT;

ALIGNMENT; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 84863073495     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.OE.51.1.014001     Document Type: Article

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