Spherical gradient-index lenses as perfect imaging and maximum power transfer devices

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 22, 2000, Pages 3825-3832

  Gordon, Jeffrey M ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; RADIATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; THERMODYNAMICS;

GRADIENT-INDEX LENSES;

OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES;

EID: 0000371253     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.003825     Document Type: Article

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