Super-thin Mikaelian's lens of small index as a beam compressor with an extremely high compression ratio

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 7328-7336

  Sun, Fei ^a,b   Ma, Yun Gui ^a   Ge, Xiaochen ^a   He, Sailing ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSION RATIO (MACHINERY); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; METAMATERIALS;

BEAM COMPRESSOR; HIGH COMPRESSION RATIO; METAMATERIAL STRUCTURES; NEAR FIELDS; OPTICAL BEAMS; OUTPUT BEAM; REFRACTION INDEX; TRANSMISSIVITY;

LENSES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LENSES; LIGHT; MINIATURIZATION; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84875719561     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.007328     Document Type: Article

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