An efficient broadband metamaterial wave retarder

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 7640-7647

  Chin, Jessie Y ^a   Gollub, Jonah N ^b,c   Mock, Jack J ^b   Liu, Ruopeng ^b   Harrison, Cameron ^b   Smith, David R ^b   Cui, Tie Jun ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Duke University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; METAMATERIALS; POLARIZATION;

CONSTITUTIVE PARAMETERS; CROSS POLARIZATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPERTIES; HALF-WAVE; LINEAR POLARIZATION; LOW-LOSS; NONRESONANT; POLARIZATION STATE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; MATERIALS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 66649105558     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.007640     Document Type: Article

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