Super Talbot effect in indefinite metamaterial

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 15297-15303

  Zhao, Wangshi ^a   Huang, Xiaoyue ^b   Lu, Zhaolin ^a  

^a Rochester Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION;

ALTERNATING MULTILAYERS; DIFFRACTION LIMITS; EVANESCENT WAVE; FAR FIELD; IMAGE SIZES; PARAXIAL APPROXIMATIONS; PERIODIC OBJECTS; PROPAGATION DIRECTION; SELF-IMAGING EFFECTS; SUB-WAVELENGTH; TALBOT EFFECTS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 79961046652     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.015297     Document Type: Article

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