Imaging by a sub-wavelength metallic lens with large field of view

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2578-2583

  Yin, Shaoyun ^a   Zhou, Chongxi ^a   Luo, Xiangang ^a   Du, Chunlei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND ELECTRONICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; LENSES; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; METALLIC FILMS;

FIELD OF VIEW; IMAGING ABILITY; METALLIC LENS;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 39749136560     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.002578     Document Type: Article

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