Nanoscale all-optical plasmonic switching using electromagnetically induced transparency

Applied Optics

Volumn 51, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 5019-5027

  Rostami, Ghassem ^a   Shahabadi, Mahmoud ^a   Kusha, Ali Afzali ^a   Rostami, Ali ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSPARENCY; WAVEGUIDES;

ALL OPTICAL SWITCH; DIELECTRIC SLAB WAVEGUIDES; DIPOLE APPROXIMATION; ELECTROMAGNETICALLY-INDUCED TRANSPARENCY; OPTICAL SIGNALS; OPTICAL TRANSPARENCY; REJECTION RATIOS; SCATTERED FIELD;

NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 84864254481     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.005019     Document Type: Article

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