Light amplification in zero-index metamaterial with gain inserts

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Zhu, Weiren ^a   Rukhlenko, Ivan D ^a   Premaratne, Malin ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGINARY PARTS; LIGHT AMPLIFICATION; NET GAIN; POINT SOURCES;

METAMATERIALS;

AMPLIFICATION;

EID: 84864213615     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4737643     Document Type: Article

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