Miniature chiral beamsplitter based on gyroid photonic crystals

Nature Photonics

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 801-805

  Turner, Mark D ^a,b   Saba, Matthias ^c   Zhang, Qiming ^a   Cumming, Benjamin P ^a   Schröder Turk, Gerd E ^a,c   Gu, Min ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b CRC Polymers   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENT CRYSTALS; CIRCULAR BIREFRINGENCE; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED LIGHT; CRITICAL REFLECTIONS; DIRECT LASER WRITING; INTEGRATED PHOTONIC CIRCUIT; POLARIZATION CONTROL; POLARIZING BEAM SPLITTERS;

BIREFRINGENCE; CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; POLARIZATION;

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

EID: 84885020290     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2013.233     Document Type: Article

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