Twisting light with hyperbolic metamaterials

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 14975-14981

  Sun, Jingbo ^a   Zeng, Jinwei ^a   Litchinitser, Natalia M ^a  

^a State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAMATERIALS;

ANISOTROPIC METAMATERIALS; HERMITE GAUSSIAN BEAMS; LAGUERRE GAUSSIAN BEAMS; OPTICAL PATH DIFFERENCE; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; ORTHOGONAL COMPONENTS; RECONFIGURABILITY; SILVER NANOWIRES;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

NANOPARTICLE;

CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; PROCEDURES; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOPARTICLES; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84879359819     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.014975     Document Type: Article

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