Hybridization Induced Transparency in composites of metamaterials and atomic media

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 23573-23580

  Weis, Peter ^a   Garcia Pomar, Juan Luis ^a,b   Beigang, René ^a,b   Rahm, Marco ^a,b  

^a Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR PHYSICAL MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES IPM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; METAMATERIALS; QUANTUM OPTICS; SUGARS;

ANALYTIC MODELS; ATOMIC MEDIA; ATOMIC SYSTEM; COHERENT COUPLING; COMPOSITE MEDIUM; ELECTROMAGNETICALLY-INDUCED TRANSPARENCY; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; INDUCED TRANSPARENCY; LOCAL FIELDS; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; PROOF-OF-PRINCIPLE EXPERIMENTS; SPLIT RING RESONATOR;

TRANSPARENCY;

EID: 80755143350     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.023573     Document Type: Article

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