Focusing light into deep subwavelength using metamaterial immersion lenses

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 4838-4844

  Ma, Changbao ^a   Liu, Zhaowei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; LENSES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

CONCAVE SHAPE; IMMERSION LENS; LARGE EFFECTIVE; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PHASE COMPENSATION; PLASMONIC METAMATERIALS; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SUBWAVELENGTH RESOLUTION;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 77749258341     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.004838     Document Type: Article

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