Weaving the invisible thread: Design of an optically invisible metamaterial fibre

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 18095-18105

  Tuniz, Alessandro ^a   Kuhlmey, Boris T ^a   Chen, Parry Y ^a   Fleming, Simon C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAMATERIALS; NANOWIRES; ORGANIC POLYMERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICA; SILVER;

HIGHLY SENSITIVE; OPTICAL FREQUENCY; SILVER NANOWIRES;

FIBERS;

GLASS FIBER; NANOWIRE;

ARTICLE; LASER; MATERIALS; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

LASERS; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOWIRES; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 77956391238     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.018095     Document Type: Article

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