Large lateral shift near pseudo-Brewster angle on reflection from a weakly absorbing double negative medium

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 10574-10579

  Shen, Nian Hai ^a   Chen, Jing ^a   Wu, Qi Yang ^a   Lan, Tian ^a   Fan, Ya Xian ^a   Wang, Hui Tian ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BREWSTER ANGLE; DOUBLE NEGATIVE MEDIUM; LATERAL SHIFT; THEORETICAL ANALYSIS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION;

EID: 33750735389     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.010574     Document Type: Article

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