Self-accelerating beams in photonic crystals

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 8886-8896

  Kaminer, Ido ^a   Nemirovsky, Jonathan ^a   Makris, Konstantinos G ^b   Segev, Mordechai ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAMATERIALS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

ANALYTIC SOLUTION; CRYSTAL LATTICE STRUCTURE; FINE FEATURE; FREE SPACES; GENERAL SYSTEMS; HONEYCOMB LATTICES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL SLAB; SHAPE-PRESERVING;

PERIODIC STRUCTURES;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ACCELERATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; LIGHT; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84876012259     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.008886     Document Type: Article

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