Accessing the optical nonlinearity of metals with metal-dielectric photonic bandgap structures

Optics Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 20, 1999, Pages 1416-1418

  Bennink, Ryan S ^a   Yoon, Young Kwon ^a   Boyd, Robert W ^a   Sipe, J E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 0001302095     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.24.001416     Document Type: Article

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