Negative dispersion: A backward wave or fast light? Nanoplasmonic examples

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 18934-18939

  Feigenbaum, Eyal ^a   Kaminski, Noam ^a   Orenstein, Meir ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

BACKWARD WAVES; FAST LIGHT; PHASE AND GROUP VELOCITIES; PROPAGATION OF LIGHTS;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

EID: 70350290518     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.018934     Document Type: Article

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