Optical modes at the interface between two dissimilar discrete meta-materials

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 4663-4670

  Suntsov, S ^a   Makris, K G ^a   Christodoulides, D N ^a   Stegeman, G I ^a   Morandotti, R ^b   Volatier, Maïte ^c   Aimez, Vincent ^c   Arès, Richard ^c   Rüter, Christian E ^d   Kip, Detlef ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^d CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFACES (MATERIALS); OPTICAL MATERIALS; WAVEGUIDES;

BAND STRUCTURES; META MATERIALS; OPTICAL MODES;

LASER MODES;

EID: 34247212847     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.004663     Document Type: Article

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