A broadband zone plate lens from transformation optics

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 12348-12355

  Yang, Rui ^a,b   Tang, Wenxuan ^a   Hao, Yang ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

BROADBAND OPERATION; BROADBAND PERFORMANCE; FRESNEL; HYPERBOLIC LENS; NARROW BANDS; TRANSFORMATION OPTICS; ZONE PLATE LENS; ZONE PLATES;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

ARTICLE; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

LENSES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 79959440786     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.012348     Document Type: Article

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