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Fundamentals of Effective Materials and Diffractive Optics

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Nanocomposites as Next-Generation Optical Materials

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In this chapter, I introduce the fundamental concepts and relationships from the different fields, including electrodynamics, optical design, materials science, and diffractive optics, which are central to the following chapters. This chapter is not intended to replace a textbook but should rather serve as a reference, which provides the readers with the relevant basics of fields with which they are not familiar.

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Werdehausen, D. (2021). Fundamentals of Effective Materials and Diffractive Optics. In: Nanocomposites as Next-Generation Optical Materials. Springer Series in Materials Science, vol 316. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75684-0_2

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