Imaging visible light using anisotropic metamaterial slab lens

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 25, 2009, Pages 22380-22385

  Yao, Jie ^a   Tsai, Kun Tong ^b   Wang, Yuan ^a   Liu, Zhaowei ^c   Bartal, Guy ^a   Wang, Yuh Lin ^b,d   Zhang, Xiang ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; METAMATERIALS; OPTICAL ANISOTROPY; REFRACTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

3-DIMENSIONAL SPACES; ANISOTROPIC METAMATERIALS; ELECTROCHEMICAL METHODS; FOCUSED LIGHT BEAMS; INDEX OF REFRACTION; NANOWIRE ARRAYS; NEGATIVE PHASE; NEGATIVE REFRACTIONS;

LIGHT;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LENSES; LIGHT; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MICROSCOPY; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 72049109193     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.022380     Document Type: Article

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