Tunable negative group index in metamaterial structures with large form birefringence

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 463-472

  Sinchuk, Kirill ^a   Dudley, Richard ^b   Graham, John D ^a   Clare, Michael ^a   Woldeyohannes, Mesfin ^a   Schenk, John O ^b   Ingel, Robert P ^b   Yang, Weiguo ^a   Fiddy, Michael A ^b  

^a WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAMATERIALS; REFRACTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SLOW LIGHT;

ANOMALOUS PHASE; BIREFRINGENT MATERIALS; DESIGN PARAMETERS; DEVICE OPERATIONS; FAST LIGHT; FORM BIREFRINGENCE; GROUP INDEX; LARGE BIREFRINGENCE; METAMATERIAL STRUCTURES; NEGATIVE INDEX; OPERATION FREQUENCY; ORIENTATION ANGLES; PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS; REDUCED MODEL; SINGLE LAYER;

BIREFRINGENCE;

ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 75249087077     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.000463     Document Type: Article

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