Rainbow-like radiation from an omni-directional source placed in a uniaxial metamaterial slab

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 7068-7073

  Jiang, Tao ^a   Luo, Yu ^a   Wang, Zhiyu ^a   Peng, Liang ^a   Huangfu, Jiangtao ^a   Cui, Wanzhao ^b   Wei, Ma ^b   Chen, Hongsheng ^a   Ran, Lixin ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Xi' An Institute of Space Radio TechnologyX   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC EXCITATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

ANISOTROPIC SLABS; DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; DIRECTIVE RADIATION; DISPERSIVE PERMEABILITY; LEAKY-WAVE MODES; LINE SOURCES; OMNI-DIRECTIONAL; PERMEABILITY INCREASE;

METAMATERIALS;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; COLOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

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

EID: 66649090428     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.007068     Document Type: Article

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