Thin-film Pancharatnam lens with low f-number and high quality

Optics Express

Volumn 23, Issue 20, 2015, Pages 26086-26094

  Gao, Kun ^a   Cheng, Hsien Hui ^a   Bhowmik, Achintya K ^b   Bos, Philip J ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH;

ALIGNMENT TECHNIQUE; BANDWIDTH LIMITATION; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED LIGHT; FABRICATION METHOD; GRADIENT INDEX LENS; LOW COST FABRICATION; OPTICAL PERFORMANCE; POLARIZATION HOLOGRAPHY;

LENSES;

EID: 84943779985     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.026086     Document Type: Article

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