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Refractive Index

Refractive Index is a dimensionless optical property of a medium that equals the ratio of the speed of light in vacuum to its phase velocity in that medium, thereby characterizing how electromagnetic waves are slowed and refracted within optical materials.

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Index Of Refraction

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Negative Refraction Makes a Perfect Lens

J. B. Pendry · Physical Review Letters · 2000 · 12.1K citations · Full text

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Surface plasmon subwavelength optics

William L. Barnes, Alain Dereux, Thomas W. Ebbesen · Nature · 2003 · 11.6K citations

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Experimental Verification of a Negative Index of Refraction

R. A. Shelby, David R. Smith, S. Schultz · Science · 2001 · 9.2K citations

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Sensitive measurement of optical nonlinearities using a single beam

Mansoor Sheik‐Bahae, A. A. Said, Tai‐Huei Wei et al. · IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics · 1990 · 9K citations · Full text

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Extraordinary optical transmission through sub-wavelength hole arrays

Thomas W. Ebbesen, Henri J. Lezec, H. F. Ghaemi et al. · Nature · 1998 · 7.6K citations

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Authors

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  1. AB
    Anjan Biswas

    King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia

    164 publications · 7.8K citations

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  2. YS
    Yuri S. Kivshar

    Australian National University, Australia

    70 publications · 11.4K citations

    46

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  3. SW
    Shin‐Tson Wu

    University of Central Florida, United States

    83 publications · 6.3K citations

    44

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  4. CM
    Costas M. Soukoulis

    Iowa State University, United States

    55 publications · 16.2K citations

    41

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  5. DR
    David R. Smith

    Duke University, United States

    56 publications · 31.4K citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    102 h-index

    3.7K publications

    165.6K citations

  2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    85 h-index

    878 publications

    106.3K citations

  3. Australian National University

    Canberra, Australia

    78 h-index

    650 publications

    54.6K citations

  4. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    76 h-index

    642 publications

    75.6K citations

  5. University of Central Florida

    Orlando, United States

    74 h-index

    879 publications

    108.2K citations

  6. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    72 h-index

    2.4K publications

    96.1K citations

  7. Nanyang Technological University

    Singapore, Singapore

    70 h-index

    792 publications

    48.5K citations

  8. University of Southampton

    Southampton, United Kingdom

    69 h-index

    962 publications

    67.2K citations

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  1. Applied Optics

    2.3K publications · 129.6K citations

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  2. Optics Letters

    1.7K publications · 114.4K citations

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  3. Applied Physics Letters

    1.6K publications · 105.2K citations

    136

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  4. Optics Express

    2.4K publications · 123K citations

    136

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  5. Physical Review Letters

    PRL · 365 publications · 70K citations

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