Deep subwavelength focusing of light by a trumpet hyperlens

Journal of Optics

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Meng, Qingqing ^a   Zhang, Xiaoping ^a   Cheng, Lin ^a   Cao, Pengfei ^a   Li, Yuee ^a   Zhang, Haining ^a   Wang, Guanghui ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Focus; hyperlens; metamaterials; subwavelength

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL MAPPING; METAMATERIALS;

CO-ORDINATE TRANSFORMATION; HYPERLENS; INCIDENT WAVELENGTH; PROPAGATION OF WAVES; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SUB-WAVELENGTH FOCUSING; SUBWAVELENGTH RESOLUTION; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

FOCUSING;

EID: 79960032158     PISSN: 20408978     EISSN: 20408986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2040-8978/13/7/075102     Document Type: Article

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