Two-dimensional inside-out Eaton lens: Design technique and TM-polarized wave properties

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2335-2345

  Zeng, Yong ^a,b   Werner, Douglas H ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY;

DESIGN AND TESTS; DESIGN TECHNIQUE; NUMERICAL STUDIES; WAVE OPTICS; WAVE PROPERTIES; WKB APPROXIMATIONS;

TWO DIMENSIONAL;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LENSES; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84856443267     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.002335     Document Type: Article

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