Compensating loss with gain in slow-light propagation along slab waveguide with anisotropic metamaterial cladding

Optics Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 3869-3871

  Jiang, Tian ^a   Zhang, Qi ^a   Feng, Yijun ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COREMAKING; DIELECTRIC FILMS; METAMATERIALS; MULTILAYER FILMS; OPTICAL ANISOTROPY; SLOW LIGHT; WAVEGUIDES;

ANISOTROPIC METAMATERIALS; CORE MATERIAL; DIELECTRIC SLAB WAVEGUIDES; FULL-WAVE ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATION; MULTILAYER STRUCTURES; SLAB WAVEGUIDES; ZERO ENERGIES;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

EID: 72649107033     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.34.003869     Document Type: Article

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