Flat focusing lens designs having minimized reflection based on coordinate transformation techniques

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 7807-7817

  Kwon, Do Hoon ^a   Werner, Douglas H ^b  

^a University of Massachusetts   (United States)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; WAVEFRONTS;

CO-ORDINATE TRANSFORMATION; FULL-WAVE FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; INCIDENT WAVES; NON-MAGNETIC MATERIALS; NONLINEAR COORDINATE TRANSFORMATION; PLANAR WAVEFRONT; TRANSMITTED WAVES; TRAPEZOIDAL CROSS SECTIONS;

LENSES;

EID: 66449132275     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.007807     Document Type: Article

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