Metamaterials: Transforming theory into reality

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Litchinitser, Natalia M ^a   Shalaev, Vladimir M ^b  

^a the State University of New York   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; METAMATERIALS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

BIOLOGICAL IMAGING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; NEGATIVE INDEX MATERIAL; NEW SOLUTIONS; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PROPAGATION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; RECENT PROGRESS; TRANSFORMATION OPTICS;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 73949146947     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.26.00B161     Document Type: Article

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