Frequency-domain simulations of a negativeindex material with embedded gain

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 26, 2009, Pages 24060-24074

  Sivan, Yonatan ^a,b   Xiao, Shumin ^a   Chettiar, Uday K ^a,c   Kildishev, Alexander V ^a   Shalaev, Vladimir M ^a  

^a Purdue University   (United States)

^b the State University of New York   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EFFECTIVE GAIN; FIELD ENHANCEMENT; FREQUENCY DOMAIN SIMULATION; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; GAIN MATERIALS; LOSS COMPENSATION; METAL INCLUSIONS; NEAR-FIELD ENHANCEMENT; NEGATIVE INDEX MATERIAL; SATURABLE GAIN;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 73949132072     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.024060     Document Type: Article

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