Theory of pump-probe experiments of metallic metamaterials coupled to a gain medium

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 18, 2012, Pages

  Huang, Zhixiang ^a,b   Koschny, Th ^a   Soukoulis, C M ^a,c  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ANHUI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAIN MATERIALS; GAIN MEDIUM; LIGHT AMPLIFICATION; PUMP-PROBE; PUMP-PROBE EXPERIMENTS; SPLIT-RING RESONATOR;

METALLIC COMPOUNDS; METAMATERIALS; PROBES; PUMPS; RING GAGES;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84860654694     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.187402     Document Type: Article

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