Ultra-high-efficiency metamaterial polarizer

Optica

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 356-360

  Shen, Bing ^a   Wang, Peng ^a   Polson, Randy ^b   Menon, Rajesh ^a  

^a University of Utah   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffractive optics; Micro optics; Nanophotonics and photonic crystals

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; EFFICIENCY; ION BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; ION BEAMS; LIGHT; METAMATERIALS; MICROOPTICS; NANOPHOTONICS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTIMIZATION; POLARIZATION;

DESIGN WAVELENGTH; FABRICATED DEVICE; HIGH TRANSMISSION; LINEAR POLARIZATION; LINEARLY POLARIZED LIGHT; NON-LINEAR OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; TRANSMISSION EFFICIENCY; UNPOLARIZED LIGHT;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84929153164     PISSN: 23342536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPTICA.1.000356     Document Type: Article

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