The origin of magnetic polarizability in metamaterials at optical frequencies - An electrodynamic approach

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 8871-8883

  Rockstuhl, Carsten ^a   Zentgraf, Thomas ^b,c   Pshenay Severin, Ekaterina ^a   Petschulat, Jörg ^a   Chipouline, Arkadi ^a   Kuhl, Jürgen ^b   Pertsch, Thomas ^a   Giessen, Harald ^c   Lederer, Falk ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OPTICAL RESONATORS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

MAGNETIC POLARIZABILITY; METAMATERIALS; OPTICAL FREQUENCIES; PLASMONIC EIGENMODES;

OPTICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 34547182911     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.008871     Document Type: Article

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