Experiments on second- and third-harmonic generation from magnetic metamaterials

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 5238-5247

  Klein, Matthias W ^a   Wegener, Martin ^a   Feth, Nils ^b   Linden, Stefan ^b  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; METAMAGNETISM; RESONATORS;

MAGNETIC DIPOLE CHARACTER; MAGNETIC METAMATERIALS; OPTICAL NONLINEARITIES; PHOTONIC METAMATERIALS;

HARMONIC GENERATION;

EID: 34247213418     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.005238     Document Type: Article

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