Plasmonic analogue of electromagnetically induced transparency at the Drude damping limit

Nature Materials

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 758-762

  Liu, Na ^a   Langguth, Lutz ^a   Weiss, Thomas ^a   Kästel, Jürgen ^b   Fleischhauer, Michael ^b   Pfau, Tilman ^a   Giessen, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; ATOMIC PHYSICS; DAMPING; DIPOLE ANTENNAS; METAMATERIALS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PLASMONS; SLOW LIGHT; TRANSPARENCY;

BROAD ABSORPTIONS; COHERENT COUPLING; ELECTROMAGNETICALLY-INDUCED TRANSPARENCY; HIGH SENSITIVITY; MODULATION DEPTH; NARROW RESONANCES; NARROW-LINE WIDTH; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 69249132200     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2495     Document Type: Article

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