Effective tunability and realistic estimates of group index in plasmonic metamaterials exhibiting electromagnetically induced transparency

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 3958-3961

  Iyer, Srinivasan ^a   Popov, Sergei ^a   Friberg, Ari T ^a,b,c  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PLASMONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SLOW LIGHT; TRANSPARENCY;

ELECTROMAGNETICALLY-INDUCED TRANSPARENCY; FINITE INTEGRATION; GEOMETRY DESIGNS; GROUP INDEX; GROUP REFRACTIVE INDEX; PLASMONIC METAMATERIALS; STRUCTURAL RESONANCE; TUNABILITIES;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 79960647666     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.003958     Document Type: Article

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