Design of thin-film photonic metamaterial lúneburg lens using analytical approach

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1617-1628

  Gao, Hanhong ^a   Zhang, Baile ^b,c   Johnson, Steven G ^d   Barbastathis, George ^b,e  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^b SINGAPORE MIT ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAMATERIALS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; ANALYTICAL RESULTS; BAND DIAGRAMS; DIELECTRIC STRUCTURE; EFFECTIVE INDEX; EFFECTIVE MEDIUM THEORIES; EFFECTIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; NUMERICAL TREATMENTS; PASS BANDS; PHOTONIC METAMATERIALS; SLAB WAVEGUIDES; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SUPERSTRATES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL LATTICES; WAVEGUIDE DISPERSIONS;

WAVEGUIDES;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LENSES; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SILICON;

EID: 84855921849     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.001617     Document Type: Article

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