Nonlinear responses in optical metamaterials: Theory and experiment

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 18283-18293

  Tang, Shiwei ^a   Cho, David J ^b   Xu, Hao ^a   Wu, Wei ^c   Shen, Y Ron ^b   Zhou, Lei ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OPTICAL MATERIALS; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

METAMATERIAL STRUCTURES; NON-LINEAR RESPONSE; NONLINEAR SIGNALS; QUANTITATIVE AGREEMENT; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 80052773368     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.018283     Document Type: Article

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