Subpicosecond optical switching with a negative index metamaterial

Nano Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3565-3569

  Dani, Keshav M ^a   Ku, Zahyun ^b   Upadhya, Prashanth C ^a   Prasankumar, Rohit P ^a   Brueck, S R J ^b   Taylor, Antoinette J ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of New Mexico   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; CARRIER DYNAMICS; CROSS SECTIONAL AREA; DEVICE FUNCTIONALITY; DIELECTRIC LAYER; FISHNET STRUCTURE; HIGHER ORDER; INJECTION LEVELS; METAMATERIAL DEVICES; NANO SCALE; NEAR-IR; NEGATIVE INDEX METAMATERIAL; NEGATIVE-INDEX; OPTICAL SWITCHING; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PUMP ENERGIES; SINGLE-BIT; STRUCTURAL TUNING; SUBPICOSECOND;

METAMATERIALS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 72849145986     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl9017644     Document Type: Article

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