A chirality switching device designed with transformation optics

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 21419-21426

  Shen, Yuan ^a   Ding, Kun ^a   Sun, Wujiong ^a   Zhou, Lei ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

FAR FIELD; SWITCHING DEVICES; THREE DIMENSIONAL SPACE; TRANSFORMATION OPTICS;

CHIRALITY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; RADIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STEREOISOMERISM; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; RADIATION; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 77957992581     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.021419     Document Type: Article

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