Imaging properties of photonic crystals

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 7786-7801

  Garcia Pomar, J L ^a   Nieto Vesperinas, M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA DE MATERIALES DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY BANDS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LIGHT REFRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE DIAGRAMS;

BAND DIAGRAM; ISOPLANATISM; LEFT-HANDED MATERIALS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 34250334308     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.007786     Document Type: Article

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