Eikonal equation for a general anisotropic or chiral medium: Application to a negative-graded index-of-refraction lens with an anisotropic material

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 439-450

  Parazzoli, Claudio G ^a   Koltenbah, Benjamin E C ^a   Greegor, Robert B ^a   Lam, Tai A ^a   Tanielian, Minas H ^a  

^a BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EIKONAL EQUATION; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DEPENDENT SIMULATION; GRADED REFRACTIVE INDEX (GRIN); POSITIVE-INDEX-OF-REFRACTION-MATERIAL (PIM);

OPTICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 33645733256     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.23.000439     Document Type: Article

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