Second-harmonic generation in nonlinear left-handed metamaterials

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 529-534

  Shadrivov, Ilya V ^a   Zharov, Alexander A ^a,b   Kivshar, Yuri S ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTE FOR PHYSICS OF MICROSTRUCTURES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; MIRRORS; NONLINEAR OPTICS;

BACKWARD-PROPAGATING WAVE; COUPLED-MODE EQUATIONS; FORWARD-PROPAGATING WAVE; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY; LEFT-HANDED METAMATERIALS; QUADRATIC NONLINEAR RESPONSE; SEMI-INFINITE NONLINEAR METAMATERIAL;

SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION;

EID: 33645745154     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.23.000529     Document Type: Article

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