Planar, flattened Luneburg lens at infrared wavelengths

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1706-1713

  Hunt, John ^a   Tyler, Talmage ^a   Dhar, Sulochana ^a   Tsai, Yu Ju ^a   Bowen, Patrick ^a   Larouche, Stéphane ^a   Jokerst, Nan M ^a   Smith, David R ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAMATERIALS; OPTICAL MATERIALS;

FOCAL SURFACES; FREE SPACE; INFRARED WAVELENGTHS; LUNEBURG LENS; NEW DEVICES; OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; TELECOMMUNICATION WAVELENGTHS; TRANSFORMATION OPTICS;

LENSES;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FIBER OPTICS; INFRARED RADIATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; TELECOMMUNICATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; INFRARED RAYS; LENSES; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SILICON; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 84855914398     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.001706     Document Type: Article

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