Resonance domain surface relief diffractive lens for the visible spectral region

Applied Optics

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1531-1540

  Barlev, Omri ^a   Golub, Michael A ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BINS; DIFFRACTION; DIFFRACTION EFFICIENCY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; EFFICIENCY; FUSED SILICA;

DIFFRACTIVE LENS; HIGH NUMERICAL APERTURES; REFRACTIVE MICRO-OPTICS; RESONANCE DOMAINS; SPATIAL FEATURES; SURFACE RELIEFS; VISIBLE SPECTRAL REGIONS; VOLUME HOLOGRAMS;

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EID: 84875020612     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.52.001531     Document Type: Article

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