Birefringent Thin Films and Polarizing Elements
McCall, Martin W.
Hodgkinson, Ian J.
Wu, Qihong
Birefringent Thin Films and Polarizing Elements (2nd Edition) includes the significant advances that have been made since the first book on tilted-columnar films was published. The major discovery of serial bideposition has led to a normal-columnar nanostructure with enhanced birefringence and in turn to nanoengineered handed films with properties matching the left-circular reflectors of scarab beetles. A second version of the Matlab software that accompanies the book includes algorithms for computing material, electromagnetic and optical properties of isotropic, birefringent and chiral films. A set of numerical and experimental examples chosen to illustrate and generate interest in these new fields will be of interest to graduate students and to researchers in optics. Contents: Introduction Propagation in Biaxial Media: Propagation Equations Basis Vectors Transfer Matrices Reflection and Transmission Guided Waves Characterization of Anisotropic Films: Deposition of Basic Nanostructures Form Birefringence Handed Media Continuum Methods Effective Media Anisotropic Scatter Fluid Transport Metal Films Applications of Birefringent Media: Linear Polarizers Phase Retarders Birefringent Filters Coating Architectures Appendices: PS Sampler Birefringent Thin Films Toolbox
- ISBN: 978-1-78326-535-0
- Editorial: WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUB.CO.PTE.
- Encuadernacion: Tela
- Páginas: 468
- Fecha Publicación: 01/02/2015
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
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