Subwavelength image manipulation through an oblique layered system

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 16809-16820

  Wang, Jin ^a,c,d   Dong, Hui Yuan ^a,b   Fung, Kin Hung ^c,d   Cui, Tie Jun ^a   Fang, Nicholas X ^c,d  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY ANGLES; CONSTANT FREQUENCY; DISPERSION CURVES; ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATION; FULL WAVES; IMAGE MAGNIFICATION; IMAGE MANIPULATION; IMAGE ROTATION; IMAGE SHIFTS; LAYERED SYSTEMS; OPTICAL IMAGE; OPTICAL PROCESSING; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SUBWAVELENGTH RESOLUTION;

GEOMETRICAL OPTICS;

EID: 80052190144     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.016809     Document Type: Article

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