Optical vortices during a superresolution process in a metamaterial

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  D'Aguanno, G ^a   Mattiucci, N ^a   Bloemer, M ^a   Desyatnikov, A ^b  

^a US Army AMRDEC Development   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY ABSORPTION; LENSES; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; TOPOLOGY;

METAMATERIAL; SUPERRESOLUTION PROCESS;

OPTICAL FLOWS;

EID: 42449118893     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.77.043825     Document Type: Article

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