Adjustable and robust methods for polarizationdependent focusing

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 15538-15552

  Schmid, David ^a   Huang, Ting Yu ^a,b   Hazrat, Shiraz ^a,c   Dirks, Radhika ^a,d   Hosten, Onur ^a,e   Quint, Stephan ^a,f   Thian, Dickson ^a,e   Kwiat, Paul G ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^d Bellaire Technology Center   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

EXPERIMENTAL CONFIRMATION; LINEAR POLARIZATION; RELATIVE LOCATION; ROBUST METHODS; SAGNAC INTERFEROMETER; SIMPLE GEOMETRIES; UNIAXIAL CRYSTAL;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 84879994482     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.015538     Document Type: Article

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