Broadband microwave Luneburg lens made of gradient index metamaterials

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 426-430

  Loo, Yoke Leng ^a   Yang, Yarong ^a   Wang, Ning ^a   Ma, Yun Gui ^a,b   Ong, Chong Kim ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

CONCENTRIC SHELLS; ETCHED PATTERNS; GRADIENT INDEXES; LUNEBURG LENS; VARYING REFRACTIVE INDEX; X-BAND FREQUENCIES;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 84859230985     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.29.000426     Document Type: Article

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