Slow light and 3D imaging with non-magnetic negative index systems

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 23, 2006, Pages 11184-11193

  Alekseyev, Leonid V ^a   Narimanov, Evgenii ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

DIELECTRIC SYSTEMS; MAGNETIC NEGATIVE INDEX SYSTEMS; SUBWAVELENGTH RESOLUTION;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33751174301     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.011184     Document Type: Article

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