Controlling electromagnetic fields with graded photonic crystals in metamaterial regime

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 20321-20333

  Vasić, Borislav ^a   Isić, Goran ^a,b   Gajić, Radoš ^a   Hingerl, Kurt ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; LIGHT REFRACTION; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; METAMATERIALS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS;

ANALYTICAL FORMULAS; BROAD FREQUENCY RANGE; DIELECTRIC RODS; EFFECTIVE MEDIUM THEORIES; EFFECTIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; ELECTROMAGNETIC BEAMS; FREQUENCY RANGES; GRADED PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; GRADIENT REFRACTIVE INDEX; LOW LOSS; LUNEBURG LENS; MAXWELL-GARNETT; MAXWELL-GARNETT THEORY; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OPTICAL FREQUENCY; REFRACTIVE INDEX PROFILES;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS; METHODOLOGY; PHOTON; REFRACTOMETRY;

CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 77957006523     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.020321     Document Type: Article

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