Highly efficient beam steering with a transparent metasurface

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 10739-10745

  Wei, Zeyong ^a,b   Cao, Yang ^a,b   Su, Xiaopeng ^a,b   Gong, Zhijie ^a,b   Long, Yang ^a,b   Li, Hongqiang ^a,b  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Tongji University   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHASE MODULATION;

ANNULAR APERTURES; BEAM-STEERING; DEFLECTION ANGLES; METASURFACE; PHASE-DISCONTINUITIES; PROOF-OF-PRINCIPLE EXPERIMENTS; TRANSMITTED BEAMS; ULTRA-THIN;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MATERIALS; REFRACTOMETRY; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT FAILURE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 84878530617     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.010739     Document Type: Article

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