Backward nonlinear surface Tamm states in left-handed metamaterials

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 10543-10548

  Namdar, Abdolrahman ^a   Entezar, Samad Roshan ^b,c   Tajalli, Habib ^b,c   Eyni, Zahra ^b,c  

^a AZARBAIJAN SHAHID MADANI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

^c Research Institute for Applied Physics and Astronomy(RIAPA)   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAMATERIALS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SURFACE STATES; SURFACE WAVES;

DISPERSION PROPERTIES; ELECTROMAGNETIC SURFACE WAVES; INTENSITY-DEPENDENT; LEFT HANDED METAMATERIAL; NONLINEAR METAMATERIAL; NONLINEAR SELF-FOCUSING; NONLINEAR SURFACE WAVES; ONE DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTAL;

INTERFACE STATES;

EID: 47249093700     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.010543     Document Type: Article

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