Frequency converter implementing an optical analogue of the cosmological redshift

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 5350-5355

  Ginis, Vincent ^a   Tassin, Philippe ^a,b   Craps, Ben ^c   Veretennicoff, Irina ^a,c  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL SOLVAY INSTITUTES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ELECTRON OPTICS; METAMATERIALS;

COSMOLOGICAL REDSHIFT; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; EXPANSION OF THE UNIVERSE; FINITE LENGTH; GENERAL RELATIVITY; MATERIAL PARAMETER; OPTICAL ANALOGUES; RED SHIFT; REDSHIFTING; TIME-DEPENDENT; TRANSFORMATION OPTICS;

COSMOLOGY;

EID: 77749344679     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.005350     Document Type: Article

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