Overcoming the losses of a split ring resonator array with gain

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 12688-12699

  Fang, Anan ^a   Huang, Zhixiang ^a,b   Koschny, Thomas ^a,c   Soukoulis, Costas M ^a,c  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ANHUI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC LOSSES; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PUMPS;

COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH; ELECTRIC FIELD DISTRIBUTIONS; LOSS COMPENSATION; PUMPING SCHEMES; SELF-CONSISTENT TREATMENT; SPLIT RING RESONATOR; SPLITRING RESONATORS;

RING GAGES;

GALLIUM; GALLIUM ARSENIDE; NANOMATERIAL; ORGANOARSENIC DERIVATIVE; SILVER;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANISOTROPY; ARSENICALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GALLIUM; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SILVER;

EID: 79959418839     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.012688     Document Type: Article

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