Theory of chirped photonic crystals in biological broadband reflectors

Optica

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 1436-1439

  Cook, Caleb Q ^a,b   Amir, Ariel ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biomaterials; Metamaterials; Multilayer design; Photonic crystals

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIALS; METAMATERIALS; MULTILAYERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

BROADBAND REFLECTOR; CHIRPED PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; MULTILAYER DESIGNS; OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES; QUANTUM SCATTERING; REFLECTANCE SPECTRUM;

REFLECTION;

EID: 85007038147     PISSN: 23342536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPTICA.3.001436     Document Type: Letter

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