Design of oblate cylindrical perfect lens using coordinate transformation

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 8094-8105

  Wang, Wei ^a   Lin, Lan ^a   Yang, Xuefeng ^a   Cui, Jianhua ^a   Du, Chunlei ^a   Luo, Xiangang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND ELECTRONICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; DIFFRACTION;

CO-ORDINATE TRANSFORMATION; COORDINATE TRANSFORMATION METHODS; CYLINDRICAL COORDINATE SYSTEMS; DIFFRACTION LIMITS; MATHEMATICAL DERIVATION; NUMERICAL CONFIRMATION; OBJECT SURFACE; PERFECT LENS;

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LENSES; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 44649117328     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.008094     Document Type: Article

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