Metal-dielectric composites for beam splitting and far-field deep sub-wavelength resolution for visible wavelengths

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 14794-14801

  Yan, Changchun ^a   Zhang, Dao Hua ^a   Zhang, Yuan ^a   Li, Dongdong ^a   Fiddy, M A ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAMATERIALS;

BEAM SPLITTING; METAL-DIELECTRIC COMPOSITES; POLARIZED WAVE; SILVER LAYER; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SUBWAVELENGTH RESOLUTION; SUPER RESOLUTION IMAGING; VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS;

PHOTONIC DEVICES;

EID: 79952823109     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.014794     Document Type: Article

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