Loss and gain in metamaterials

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 648-659

  Lagarkov, Andrey N ^a   Kisel, Vladimir N ^a   Sarychev, Andrey K ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL AND APPLIED ELECTRODYNAMICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

ACHIEVABILITY; ACTIVE MATERIAL; ACTIVE MEDIUM; ELECTRODYNAMIC MODELS; MODELING DEVICES; NEW DESIGN; SUPER RESOLUTION;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 77955667926     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.27.000648     Document Type: Article

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