Polarization characteristics of the metallic structure with elliptically helical metamaterials

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 17539-17545

  Wu, Lin ^a   Yang, Zhenyu ^a   Zhao, Ming ^a   Yu, Yang ^a   Li, Shengxi ^a   Zhang, Qianpeng ^a   Yuan, Xiuhua ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; LIGHT; LIGHT POLARIZATION; NANOWIRES; POLARIZATION;

CIRCULARLY POLARIZED LIGHT; COMPACT STRUCTURES; ELLIPTICALLY POLARIZED LIGHT; FDTD METHOD; HIGH-TEMPERATURE DURABILITY; METALLIC STRUCTURES; OPTICAL PERFORMANCE; POLARIZATION CHARACTERISTICS; POLARIZATION STATE; POLARIZING OPTICS; SUB-WAVELENGTH; TRANSMITTED LIGHT; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 80052194302     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.017539     Document Type: Article

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