Slow and stopped-light lasing in active plasmonic metamaterials

International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Tsakmakidis, Kosmas L ^a   Hess, Ortwin ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

guided waves; laser theory; metamaterials; optical amplifiers; plasmonics; ultrafast lasers

Indexed keywords

3-DIMENSIONAL; DIFFRACTION LIMITS; DISSIPATIVE LOSS; GAIN MATERIALS; LANGEVIN; LIGHT PULSE; MAXWELL-BLOCH; MODELOCKING; NANOLASERS; NEGATIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC METAMATERIALS; PLASMONICS; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; ULTRA-THIN;

DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; LASER THEORY; LIGHT; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; METAMATERIALS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PLASMONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TRANSPARENT OPTICAL NETWORKS; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

SLOW LIGHT;

EID: 84866999382     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21627339     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICTON.2012.6254439     Document Type: Conference Paper

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