Experimental and theoretical verification of focusing in a large, periodically loaded transmission line negative refractive index metamaterial

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 696-708

  Iyer, Ashwin K ^a   Kremer, Peter C ^a   Eleftheriades, George V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; LENSES; LIGHT PROPAGATION; PERMITTIVITY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; RESONATORS; SCATTERING PARAMETERS; WAVE EFFECTS;

ARTIFICIAL MEDIA; NEGATIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX (NRI); POSITIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX (PRI); SPLIT RING RESONATORS (SRR);

OPTICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 0142108603     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.000696     Document Type: Article

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