Wave front engineering from an array of thin aperture antennas

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 15882-15890

  Kang, Ming ^a,b   Feng, Tianhua ^a   Wang, Hui Tian ^b,c   Li, Jensen ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; DIFFRACTION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; METAMATERIAL ANTENNAS; METAMATERIALS;

APERTURE ANTENNAS; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED LIGHT; DIFFRACTION LIMITS; PHASE-DISCONTINUITIES; PRECISE CONTROL; SIMPLE LINEAR RELATIONSHIP; SUBWAVELENGTH SCALE; WAVE FRONT ENGINEERING;

WAVEFRONTS;

EID: 84988045088     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.015882     Document Type: Article

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