Birefringent Thin Films and Polarizing Elements

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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