The geodesic form of light-ray trace in the inhomogeneous media

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 11753-11767

  Niu, Kai ^a   Song, Ci ^a   Ge, Mo Lin ^a,b  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

(080.2710) Geometrical optics, inhomogeneous media; (080.2720) Geometrical optics, mathematical methods (general); (260.1180) Anisotropic media, crystal optics

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; GEODESY; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; PHYSICAL OPTICS;

3-DIMENSIONAL; CANONICAL EQUATIONS; CRYSTAL OPTICS; INHOMOGENEOUS MEDIA; MATHEMATICAL METHOD; OPTICAL CLOAKING; PHYSICAL MEANINGS; RIEMANNIAN SPACES;

ANISOTROPIC MEDIA;

EID: 67650538982     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.011753     Document Type: Article

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