Radiation of a uniformly moving line charge in a zero-index metamaterial and other periodic media

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 18515-18524

  Yanai, Avner ^a   Levy, Uriel ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAMATERIALS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ALTERNATING LAYERS; COMPUTATION METHODS; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; CONSTANT VELOCITIES; DENSITY OF STATE; EIGEN-MODE EXPANSION; HALF-WAVE; LINE CHARGES; MOVING CHARGE; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PERIODIC MEDIA; QUARTER WAVE STACKS; RADIATION ENHANCEMENT; RADIATION FREQUENCIES; SMITH-PURCELL EFFECT; SPECIFIC FREQUENCIES; TRANSITION RADIATION;

RADIATION EFFECTS;

EID: 84864632996     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.018515     Document Type: Article

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