Graded negative index lens by photonic crystals

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 16941-16949

  Wu, Qi ^a   Gibbons, John M ^a   Park, Wounjhang ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; FOCUSING; MICROCOMPUTERS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BROADBAND OPERATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN SIMULATIONS; FOCUSING PROPERTIES; GRADED PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; LOW CHROMATIC ABERRATIONS; NEGATIVE-INDEX LENS; NEW APPLICATIONS; OPTOELECTRONIC SYSTEMS;

ABERRATIONS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LENSES; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 54449086494     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.016941     Document Type: Article

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