Studies of electromagnetically induced transparency in metamaterials

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 17736-17747

  Xu, Hua ^a   Lu, Yuehui ^b   Lee, Young Pak ^b   Ham, Byoung Seung ^a  

^a Inha University   (South Korea)

^b Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; METAMATERIALS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; PLASMONS; TRANSPARENCY;

ALL-OPTICAL; ATOMIC MEDIUM; DARK RESONANCE; ELECTROMAGNETICALLY-INDUCED TRANSPARENCY; OPTICAL SWITCHING; PLASMONIC;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATERIALS; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; RADIATION; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; RADIATION; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 77956386597     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.017736     Document Type: Article

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