Design and fabrication of a metamaterial gradient index diffraction grating at infrared wavelengths

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 24411-24423

  Tsai, Yu Ju ^a   Larouche, Stéphane ^a   Tyler, Talmage ^a   Lipworth, Guy ^a   Jokerst, Nan M ^a   Smith, David R ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

BLAZED GRATING; DIELECTRIC LAYER; FULL-WAVE SIMULATIONS; GRADIENT INDEXES; GRATING STRUCTURES; I BEAMS; INDEX VARIATION; INFRARED WAVELENGTHS; LINEAR GRADIENTS; LINEAR PHASE; MATERIAL PROPERTY; NONRESONANT; OPTICAL MEDIA; PHASE LEVELS; SPATIAL DISTANCE;

METAMATERIALS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS; REFRACTOMETRY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 82055186541     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.024411     Document Type: Article

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