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9 January 2002 Negligible polarization aberrations of antireflection-coated paraxial optical systems
Mostofa M. K. Howlader, Rasheed M. A. Azzam
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Abstract
We show that antireflection-coated (ARC) optical systems with numerical apertures < 1 exhibit negligible polarization aberrations of the fourth and sixth order for the retardance and di-attenuation, respectively. Results for ARC high-index optics are presented as examples.
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Mostofa M. K. Howlader and Rasheed M. A. Azzam "Negligible polarization aberrations of antireflection-coated paraxial optical systems", Proc. SPIE 4481, Polarization Analysis and Measurement IV, (9 January 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.452873
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KEYWORDS
Polarization

Refractive index

Germanium

Antireflective coatings

Coating

Reflection

Reflectivity

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