Wavelength-Independent Optical Polarizer Based on Metallic Nanowire Arrays

IEEE Photonics Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1083-1092

  Gan, Qiaoqiang ^a   Hu, Haifeng ^a,b   Xu, Huina ^a   Liu, Ke ^a   Cartwright, Alexander N ^a   Jiang, Suhua ^c  

^a State University of New York   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTORS   (China)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

metallic optics; nanomembrane; nanowire; Polarizer

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008063766     PISSN: 19430655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2011.2173478     Document Type: Article

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