Optical model for multilayer structures with coherent, partly coherent and incoherent layers

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 102, 2013, Pages A262-A267

  Santbergen, Rudi ^a   Smets, Arno H M ^a   Zeman, Miro ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTILAYERS;

ABSORPTION DEPTHS; ARBITRARY MULTILAYERS; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; MULTILAYER STRUCTURES; OPTICAL MODELS; SIMPLE ALGORITHM; THIN-FILM MULTILAYERS;

OPTICAL MULTILAYERS;

EID: 84875124996     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.00A262     Document Type: Article

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