Efficient polarization beam splitter pixels based on a dielectric metasurface

Optica

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 376-382

  Khorasaninejad, M ^a   Zhu, W ^a   Crozier, K B ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Metamaterials; Nanomaterials; Scattering, polarization

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; EFFICIENCY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ELLIPSOMETRY; METAMATERIALS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PIXELS; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; PRISMS; RADAR REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING;

HIGH EXTINCTION RATIOS; HIGH TRANSMISSION; PLANETARY SCIENCE; POLARIZATION BEAM SPLITTERS; POLARIZATION DEPENDENCE; SCATTERING , POLARIZATION; SELECTIVE ABSORPTION; SEMICONDUCTOR CHIPS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION;

EID: 84939164509     PISSN: 23342536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPTICA.2.000376     Document Type: Article

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