Breaking the imaging symmetry in negative refraction lenses

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2581-2586

  Ma, Changbao ^a   Liu, Zhaowei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAMATERIALS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; REFRACTION; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

CONVENTIONAL LENS; CONVERGING LENS; IMAGING EQUATIONS; IMAGING OPTICS; IMAGING PROPERTIES; NEGATIVE REFRACTIONS; OPTICAL LENS; PLASMONIC METAMATERIALS; SYMMETRY-BREAKING;

LIGHT REFRACTION;

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

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

EID: 84863064419     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.002581     Document Type: Article

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