Ultrafast evolution of photonic eigenstates in k-space

Nature Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 401-405

  Engelen, Rob J P ^a   Sugimoto, Yoshimasa ^b,c   Gersen, Henkjan ^d,e   Ikeda, Naoki ^b,c   Asakawa, Kiyoshi ^c   Kuipers, L ^a,d  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT; LIGHT PROPAGATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; REFRACTION;

ELECTRONIC EIGENSTATES; FEMTOSECOND TIME SCALE; LOW GROUP VELOCITY; MUTUAL COUPLING; NEGATIVE REFRACTIONS; NOVEL MATERIALS; PROPAGATING WAVES; PROPAGATION OF LIGHTS;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 34249874900     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys576     Document Type: Article

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