A new artificial material approach for flat THz frequency lenses

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 25766-25773

  Savini, Giorgio ^a   Ade, Peter A R ^b   Zhang, Jin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL MATERIAL; DIELECTRIC SUBSTRATES; FLAT LENS; GRADED INDEX; METAL MESH; PARABOLIC PROFILES; SPECTRAL SELECTION; STACKED LAYER; THZ FREQUENCIES;

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 84869032860     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.025766     Document Type: Article

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