Stable spatial plasmon solitons in a dielectric-metal-dielectric geometry with gain and loss

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 6616-6622

  Marini, Andrea ^a   Skryabin, Dmitry V ^a   Malomed, Boris ^b  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; PLASMONS; SOLITONS;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; DIELECTRIC GEOMETRIES; GINZBURG-LANDAU SYSTEM; MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS; MULTIPLE SCALE; SOLITON PERTURBATION THEORY; SURFACE-PLASMON;

PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

METAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; IMPEDANCE; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGHT; METALS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 79953204333     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.006616     Document Type: Article

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