Waveguiding in air by total external reflection from ultralow index metamaterials

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-3

  Schwartz, Brian T ^a   Piestun, Rafael ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAMATERIALS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; TOTAL EXTERNAL REFLECTION (TER); ULTRALOW REFRACTIVE-INDEX METAMATERIALS (ULIM);

ATTENUATION; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; OPTIMIZATION; PERMITTIVITY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; VACUUM APPLICATIONS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 3242689043     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1764596     Document Type: Article

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