Layered superlensing in two-dimensional photonic crystals

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 23, 2006, Pages 11178-11183

  Zhang, Haifei ^a   Shen, Linfang ^a   Ran, Lixin ^a   Yuan, Yu ^a   Kong, Jin Au ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL LATTICES; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PHOTONS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EQUIFREQUENCY CONTOUR ANALYSIS; FIELD IMAGING; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SUPERLENSING;

CRYSTALS;

EID: 33751081547     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.011178     Document Type: Article

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