Pairs of metallic crosses as a left-handed metamaterial with improved polarization properties

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 8257-8262

  Imhof, Christian ^a   Zengerle, Remigius ^a  

^a Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT REFRACTION; VECTORS; WAVEFRONTS;

ELECTRICAL FIELD VECTOR; METALLIC CROSSES; METAMATERIALS;

MATERIALS SCIENCE;

EID: 33748297419     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.008257     Document Type: Article

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