Broadband optical cloak and illusion created by the low order active sources

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 8608-8617

  Du, Junjie ^a,b,c   Liu, Shiyang ^a,b   Lin, Zhifang ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

ACTIVE CONTROL; INTRINSIC LOSS; LOW ORDER; MULTIPLE-SCATTERING THEORY; OPERATING FREQUENCY;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 84860207595     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.008608     Document Type: Article

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