Toy model for plasmonic metamaterial resonances coupled to two-level system gain

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 19785-19798

  Wegener, Martin ^a   García Pomar, Juan Luis ^b   Soukoulis, Costas M ^c,d   Meinzer, Nina ^e   Ruther, Matthias ^e   Linden, Stefan ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA DE MATERIALES DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Research Center of Crete   (Greece)

^e KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAMATERIALS;

ANALYTIC EXPRESSIONS; LASER RATE EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; PLASMONIC METAMATERIALS; RELAXATION OSCILLATION; SIMPLE MODELING; STEADY-STATE CONDITION; TWO-LEVEL SYSTEM;

RESONANCE;

EID: 57149122963     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.019785     Document Type: Article

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