Overcoming losses with gain in a negative refractive index metamaterial

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Wuestner, Sebastian ^a   Pusch, Andreas ^a   Tsakmakidis, Kosmas L ^a   Hamm, Joachim M ^a   Hess, Ortwin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFECTIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; FIGURE OF MERIT; IMAGINARY PARTS; METAMATERIAL STRUCTURES; NEGATIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; NEGATIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX METAMATERIAL;

FREQUENCY BANDS; LIGHT REFRACTION; METAMATERIALS; OPTICALLY PUMPED LASERS; PUMPING (LASER); REFRACTOMETERS;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 77957122179     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.127401     Document Type: Article

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