Lasing in metamaterial nanostructures

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Fang, Anan ^a   Koschny, Thomas ^a,b,c   Soukoulis, Costas M ^a,b,c  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Gain material; Lasing; Loss compensation; Metamaterial

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL SCHEMES; DIELECTRIC RODS; EFFECTIVE PARAMETERS; FOUR LEVEL SYSTEM; GAIN MATERIALS; INPUT SIGNAL; LASING; LORENTZ; LOSS COMPENSATION; NON-LINEARITY; PUMPING RATE; SPLITRING RESONATORS; TWO LAYERS; TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D);

NANOSTRUCTURES; PUMPS; RADIO RECEIVERS; RING GAGES; ONE DIMENSIONAL;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 75849126993     PISSN: 14644258     EISSN: 17413567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2040-8978/12/2/024013     Document Type: Article

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