Optical propagation through a homogeneous mixture of positive and negative index materials

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7029, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Aylo, Rola ^a   Banerjee, Partha P ^b   Nehmetallah, George ^a  

^a University of Dayton   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Metamaterials; Negative index; Perfect lensing; Random multilayers

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; LIGHT REFRACTION; MATERIALS SCIENCE; MIXTURES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS; TURBULENT FLOW;

HOMOGENEOUS MIXTURES; METAMATERIALS; MULTILAYERED APPROACHES; NEGATIVE INDEX; NEGATIVE INDICES; NEGATIVE REFRACTIVE INDICES; OPTICAL PROPAGATIONS; PERFECT LENSING; PERIODIC ARRAYS; PLANE WAVE PROPAGATIONS; RANDOM MIXTURES; RANDOM MULTILAYERS; RANDOM SEQUENCES; TRANSMITTIVITY;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

EID: 56349099329     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.796089     Document Type: Conference Paper

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