Terahertz meta-atoms coupled to a quantum well intersubband transition

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 13700-13706

  Dietze, D ^a   Benz, A ^a   Strasser, G ^a   Unterrainer, K ^a   Darmo, J ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ENERGY CONVERSION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; METAMATERIALS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; TERAHERTZ WAVES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

COUPLING EFFICIENCY; ENERGY CONVERSION RATIO; FIELD ENHANCEMENT; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS; FREE SPACE; GAAS/ALGAAS; IN-PLANE; INCIDENT LIGHT; INTERSUBBAND TRANSITIONS; LIGHT-MATTER COUPLING; METAL STRUCTURES; MODULATION-DOPED; PARABOLIC QUANTUM WELLS; QUANTUM WELL; SIMULATION RESULT; TERA HERTZ; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; TRANSMISSION MEASUREMENTS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; QUANTUM THEORY; RADIATION SCATTERING; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; QUANTUM THEORY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

EID: 79959888768     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.013700     Document Type: Article

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