Optic-null medium: Realization and applications

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 28948-28959

  He, Qiong ^a   Xiao, Shiyi ^a   Li, Xin ^a   Zhou, Lei ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCELLATION EFFECTS; EFFECTIVE-MEDIUM THEORIES; FULL-WAVE SIMULATIONS; METALLIC PLATE; MICROWAVE EXPERIMENTS; OPTICAL FUNCTIONALITIES; PERIODIC ARRAYS; SUBWAVELENGTH APERTURES;

OPTICAL CONSTANTS;

OPTICS;

EID: 84888244428     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.028948     Document Type: Article

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