Backward self-induced transparency in metamaterials

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Zeng, Jianhua ^a,b   Zhou, Jianying ^a   Kurizki, Gershon ^a   Opatrny, Tomas ^c  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INHERENT LIMITATIONS; SELF-INDUCED TRANSPARENCY;

DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; LASER PULSES; METAMATERIALS; SOLITONS; TRANSPARENCY;

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT;

EID: 72049089292     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.061806     Document Type: Article

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