Guiding light with conformai transformations

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 14872-14879

  Landy, Nathan I ^a   Padilla, Willie J ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL MAPPING; INVISIBILITY CLOAKS; LIGHT; METAMATERIALS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ELECTROMAGNETICS; METAMATERIAL DEVICES; NEGATIVE INDEX OF REFRACTION; QUASI-CONFORMAL MAPPINGS; TRANSFORMATION OPTICS;

PHOTONIC DEVICES;

EID: 69049118120     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.014872     Document Type: Article

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