Illusion induced overlapped optics

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 582-592

  Zang, Xiao Fei ^a   Shi, Cheng ^a   Li, Zhou ^a   Chen, Lin ^a   Cai, Bin ^a   Zhu, Yi Ming ^a   Zhu, Hai Bin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHANGHAI FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b JIAXING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LASER BEAMS; INTERFERENCE EFFECTS; INVISIBLE CLOAKS; LAW OF CONSERVATION OF ENERGY; MULTIPLE LASERS; OPTICAL INTERFERENCE EFFECTS; POINT SOURCES; THEORETICAL MODELING;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

OPTICS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; ILLUSION; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; ILLUSIONS; LENSES; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84892642856     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.000582     Document Type: Article

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