Design and experimental investigation of highly efficient resonance-domain diffraction gratings in the visible spectral region

Applied Optics

Volumn 51, Issue 34, 2012, Pages 8074-8080

  Barlev, Omri ^a   Golub, Michael A ^a   Friesem, Asher A ^b   Nathan, Menachem ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

BINS; BRAGG CELLS; DIFFRACTION; DIFFRACTION EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; FABRICATION; REACTIVE ION ETCHING; RESONANCE;

BINARY GRATINGS; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; OPTICAL HOLOGRAMS; PROPAGATION DIRECTION; RESONANCE DOMAINS; SURFACE RELIEFS; VISIBLE SPECTRAL REGIONS; WAVE-FRONT CURVATURE;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 84870906882     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.008074     Document Type: Article

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