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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.
This book describes the propagation of light in biaxial media, the
properties of biaxial thin films, and applications such as
birefringent filters for tuning the wavelength of dye lasers. A
novel feature of the first part is the parallel treatment of
Stokes, Jones, and Berreman matrix formalisms in a
chapter-by-chapter development of wave equations, basis vectors,
transfer matrices, reflection and transmission equations, and
guided waves. Computational tools for MATLAB are included. The
second part focuses on an emerging planar technology in which
anisotropic microstructures are formed by oblique deposition in
vacuum. Methods for characterizing dielectric and metal films are
discussed. Topics such as form birefringence, effective medium
theory, anisotropic scatter and anisotropic fluid transport are
discussed in detail. Practical applications of bulk and layered
birefringent media are considered in the final part. Separate
chapters are devoted to linear polarizers, phase retarders, and
birefringent filters. Traditional bulk-media polarizing elements
are included and compared with thin film designs.
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