Evanescent gain for slow and stopped light in negative refractive index heterostructures

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Kirby, Edmund I ^a   Hamm, Joachim M ^a   Pickering, Tim W ^a   Tsakmakidis, Kosmas L ^a   Hess, Ortwin ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 79961233322     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.84.041103     Document Type: Article

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