Experimental realization of a broadband bend structure using gradient index metamaterials

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 18354-18363

  Mei, Zhong Lei ^a,b   Cui, Tie Jun ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVE DEVICES;

90-DEGREE BEND; ARBITRARY WAVEGUIDES; BEAM STEERING DEVICES; BEND STRUCTURE; EXPERIMENTAL REALIZATIONS; GRADIENT INDEXES; ISOTROPIC MATERIALS; MICROWAVE LENS;

METAMATERIALS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 70349660226     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.018354     Document Type: Article

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