Sub-wavelength image manipulating through compensated anisotropic metamaterial prisms

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 18057-18066

  Zhao, Junming ^a   Feng, Yijun ^a   Zhu, Bo ^a   Jiang, Tian ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; METAMATERIALS; OPTICAL ANISOTROPY;

ANISOTROPIC METAMATERIALS; ARBITRARY ANGLES; FULL-WAVE ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATION; IMAGE MAGNIFICATION; OPTICAL PROCESSING; PRISM STRUCTURE; SUBWAVELENGTH RESOLUTION; WAVELENGTH SCALE;

PRISMS;

EID: 55349119183     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.018057     Document Type: Article

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