Newtonian photorealistic ray tracing of grating cloaks and correlation-function-based cloaking-quality assessment

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 6078-6092

  Halimeh, Jad C ^a   Schmied, Roman ^b   Wegener, Martin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION FUNCTION; CROSS-CORRELATIONS; GAUSSIANS; NEWTONIANS; PHOTO-REALISTIC; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; RAY TRACING SIMULATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX PROFILES; RENDERED IMAGES; SNELL'S LAW;

RAY TRACING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 79953214411     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.006078     Document Type: Article

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