Waveguiding light in air with ultralow index metamaterials

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5515, Issue , 2004, Pages 180-186

  Schwartz, Brian T ^a   Piestun, Rafael ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

Effective Refractive Index; Metamaterials; Total External Reflection; Waveguides

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFLECTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILVER;

EFFECTIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; METAMATERIALS; PHOTONIC APPLICATIONS; TOTAL EXTERNAL REFLECTION;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 13244291436     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.559851     Document Type: Conference Paper

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