Non-near-field focus and imaging of an unpolarized electromagnetic wave through high-symmetry quasicrystals

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1292-1300

  Zhang, Xiangdong ^a   Li, Zhiyuan ^b   Cheng, Bingying ^b   Zhang, Dao Zhong ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFRACTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; QUASICRYSTALS;

NON-NEAR-FIELD FOCUS; PHOTONIC QUASICRYSTALS (PQC); POLARIZED WAVES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

EID: 33846851469     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.001292     Document Type: Article

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