Aplanatic near-field optics for efficient light transfer

Optical Engineering

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Nakar, Doron ^a   Feuermann, Daniel ^a   Gordon, Jeffrey M ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Optical design; Optical systems

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ARC LAMPS; COHERENT LIGHT; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; LIGHT SOURCES; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MIRRORS; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

ACHROMATIC MIRRORED SYSTEM; APLANATIC CONCENTRATORS; NEAR-FIELD ULTRABRIGHT INCOHERENT LIGHT SOURCE;

OPTICAL DESIGN;

EID: 33748592256     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2181088     Document Type: Article

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