Slow non-dispersing wavepackets

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 2286-2293

  Kim, Kyoung Youm ^a   Hwang, Chi Young ^b   Lee, Byoungho ^b  

^a Sejong University   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; METAMATERIALS; WAVE PACKETS; WAVEGUIDES;

LAUNCHING SPEED; MOVING FRAME; NONLINEAR EFFECT; PLASMONIC; SLAB WAVEGUIDES; SPATIAL DIFFRACTION; TEMPORAL SPREADING; TIME DOMAIN; WAVEGUIDE MODE;

SLOW LIGHT;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 79851479663     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.002286     Document Type: Article

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