Nanotechnology for optics is a phase-length-time sandwich

Optical Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2410-2417

  Lakhtakia, Akhlesh ^a   Geddes III, Joseph B ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Columnar thin film; Goos H nchen shift; Nanotechnology; Optical beam; Pulsed plane wave; Sculptured thin film; Time delay

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL ENGINEERING; THIN FILMS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

COLUMNAR THIN FILM; GOOS-HANCHEN SHIFT; PULSED PLANE WAVE;

OPTICS;

EID: 9744270785     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1786610     Document Type: Article

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