Active metamaterials: Sign of refractive index and gain-assisted dispersion management

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 19, 2007, Pages

  Govyadinov, Alexander A ^a   Podolskiy, Viktor A ^a   Noginov, M A ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY; NANOWIRES; PERMITTIVITY; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

DIELECTRIC PERMITTIVITY; METAMATERIALS; PULSE ROUTING; WAVEVECTORS;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 36048948270     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2800309     Document Type: Article

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