Demonstration of a large-scale optical exceptional point structure

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1760-1767

  Feng, Liang ^a   Zhu, Xuefeng ^a,b   Yang, Sui ^a,c   Zhu, Hanyu ^a   Zhang, Peng ^a   Yin, Xiaobo ^a,c   Wang, Yuan ^a,c   Zhang, Xiang ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSSING OVER; EXCEPTIONAL POINTS; FREE-SPACE OPTICAL; LIGHT TRANSPORT; MULTILAYER STRUCTURES; REFLECTIONLESS; VISIBLE FREQUENCIES; WAFER SCALE;

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

OPTICAL MULTILAYERS;

EID: 84893348066     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.001760     Document Type: Conference Paper

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