Active phase conjugating lens with sub-wavelength resolution capability

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 798-808

  Fusco, Vincent F ^a   Buchanan, Neil B ^a   Malyuskin, Oleksandr ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Array; Diffraction limit; Microwave imaging; Phase conjugation; Subwavelength resolution

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION LIMITS; DIPOLE SOURCES; FINITE ARRAY; MICROWAVE IMAGING; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PHASE CONJUGATIONS; SINGLE SOURCE; SUBWAVELENGTH RESOLUTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LENSES; MICROWAVES;

OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 77749341581     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2039332     Document Type: Article

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