Negative radiation pressure and negative effective refractive index via dielectric birefringence

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 8907-8914

  Nemirovsky, Jonathan ^a   Rechtsman, Mikael C ^a   Segev, Mordechai ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; PRESSURE;

DIELECTRIC SLABS; DIELECTRIC STRUCTURE; EFFECTIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; LOSSLESS; RADIATION PRESSURE; VACUUM GAP;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 84860188704     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.008907     Document Type: Article

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