Analytical solution for wave propagation through a graded index interface between a right-handed and a left-handed material

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 6747-6752

  Dalarsson, Mariana ^a   Tassin, Philippe ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; HYPERBOLIC FUNCTIONS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); REFRACTIVE INDEX; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EXACT ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; FIELD INTENSITY; GRADED INDEX; HYPERBOLIC TANGENT FUNCTION; LEFT HANDED MATERIALS; REFLECTION PROPERTIES; RIGHT HANDED; SPECTRAL DISPERSIONS;

METAMATERIALS;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 65149100366     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.006747     Document Type: Article

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