Experimental realization of a high-contrast grating based broadband quarter-wave plate

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 25, 2012, Pages 27966-27973

  Mutlu, Mehmet ^a   Akosman, Ahmet E ^a   Kurt, Gokhan ^a   Gokkavas, Mutlu ^a   Ozbay, Ekmel ^a  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR POLARIZERS; EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; GRATING STRUCTURES; HIGH CONTRAST; LINEAR POLARIZER; OPERATION REGIME; PHASE DIFFERENCE; QUARTER WAVE-PLATE; TRANSVERSE ELECTRICS; TRANSVERSE MAGNETIC WAVES;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; FIBER OPTICS; LIQUID CRYSTAL; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SILICON;

EID: 84870623159     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.027966     Document Type: Article

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