Stopping light by an air waveguide with anisotropic metamaterial cladding

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 170-177

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

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; METAMATERIALS; OPTICAL ANISOTROPY; WAVEGUIDES;

AIR CORE; AIR WAVEGUIDES; ANISOTROPIC METAMATERIALS; FULL-WAVE SIMULATIONS; OSCILLATING MODES; SLAB WAVEGUIDES; WAVEGUIDE STRUCTURE;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

GLASS FIBER;

AIR; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; OPTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

AIR; ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 58449135147     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.000170     Document Type: Article

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