Finite element simulation of microphotonic lasing system

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 11548-11560

  Fietz, Chris ^a   Soukoulis, Costas M ^a,b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

CARRIER FREQUENCY; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; GAIN MEDIUM; METAL SHELL; PUMP-AND-PROBE; TIME EVOLUTIONS; TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATIONS;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

METAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; LASER; OPTICS; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; LASERS; METALS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84861163753     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.011548     Document Type: Article

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