Optical isolation with epsilon-near-zero metamaterials

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 3279-3286

  Davoyan, Arthur R ^a   Mahmoud, Ahmed M ^a   Engheta, Nader ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; HYBRID MATERIALS;

BACKWARD PROPAGATING WAVES; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED WAVES; MAGNETICALLY ACTIVES; MAGNETO-OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL ISOLATION;

METAMATERIALS;

MAGNETITE NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MAGNETITE NANOPARTICLES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84874095442     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.003279     Document Type: Article

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