Optical hyperlens: Far-field imaging beyond the diffraction limit

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 8247-8256

  Jacob, Zubin ^a   Alekseyev, Leonid V ^a   Narimanov, Evgenii ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; MATERIALS SCIENCE;

CYLINDRICAL GEOMETRY; FAR-FIELD OPTICAL IMAGING; IMAGE MAGNIFICATION;

OPTICAL IMAGE STORAGE;

EID: 33748328007     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.008247     Document Type: Article

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