Birefringent Thin Films and Polarizing Elements (2nd Edition)

By Ian J Hodgkinson, Qihong Wu, Martin W. McCall

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783265353
• ISBN13: 9781783265350
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Imperial College Press
• Length: 468 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"