Sub-wavelength grating lenses with a twist

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 1375-1378

  Vo, Sonny ^a   Fattal, David ^a   Sorin, Wayne V ^a   Peng, Zhen ^a   Tran, Tho ^a   Fiorentino, Marco ^a   Beausoleil, Raymond G ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Mode isolator; Orbital angular momentum; Phase front; Polarization independent; Sub wavelength grating

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; POLARIZATION;

MODE ISOLATOR; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; PHASE FRONT; POLARIZATION INDEPENDENT; SUB-WAVE LENGTH GRATING;

WAVELENGTH;

EID: 84903156101     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2014.2325947     Document Type: Article

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