Unidirectional transmission in non-symmetric gratings containing metallic layers

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 13335-13345

  Serebryannikov, A E ^a   Ozbay, Ekmel ^a  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

ANISOTROPIC MATERIAL; INDEX OF REFRACTION; ISOTROPIC GRATINGS; METALLIC LAYERS; MULTIBEAMS; POSITIVE REAL; UNIDIRECTIONALITY; ZERO ANGLE;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

METAL;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; METALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 68349137836     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.013335     Document Type: Article

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