THz bandwidth optical switching with carbon nanotube metamaterial

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 6068-6079

  Nikolaenko, Andrey E ^a   Papasimakis, Nikitas ^a   Chipouline, Arkadi ^b   De Angelis, Francesco ^c,d   Di Fabrizio, Enzo ^c,d   Zheludev, Nikolay I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MAGNA GRAECIA OF CATANZARO   (Italy)

^d ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PLASMONS;

A-CARBON; EXCITONIC RESPONSE; HYBRID NANOSTRUCTURES; LOCAL FIELDS; MODULATION DEPTH; NEAR-IR; NON-LINEAR RESPONSE; NON-LINEARITY; OPTICAL SWITCHING; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC METAMATERIALS; PUMP FLUENCE; SPECTRAL POSITION; SWITCHING CHARACTERISTICS; TELECOM;

METAMATERIALS;

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOTUBES, CARBON; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

EID: 84858994991     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.006068     Document Type: Article

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