Bianisotropic metasurfaces for optimal polarization control: Analysis and synthesis

Physical Review Applied

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Pfeiffer, Carl ^a   Grbic, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; GEOMETRY; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS; BIANISOTROPIC METAMATERIALS; CIRCULAR POLARIZERS; CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; OPTIMAL POLARIZATION; POLARIZATION ROTATOR; POLARIZATION TRANSFORMATION; REFLECTION AND TRANSMISSION COEFFICIENTS;

OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 84947709232     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23317019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.2.044011     Document Type: Article

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