Wide-angle scannable reflector design using conformal transformation optics

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 2133-2146

  Liang, Liang ^a   Hum, Sean V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL MAPPING; PERMITTIVITY;

BEAM CHARACTERISTICS; CO-ORDINATE TRANSFORMATION; CONFORMAL TRANSFORMATION; DIRECTIVITY; PARABOLIC REFLECTOR; PERMITTIVITY PROFILES; REFLECTOR DESIGN; SCAN ANGLE; SCHWARZ-CHRISTOFFEL TRANSFORMATIONS; TRANSFORMATION OPTICS; VERSATILE TOOLS; WIDE ANGLE; WIDE FREQUENCY RANGE;

REFLECTION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LENSES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874090846     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.002133     Document Type: Article

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