Slow light in dielectric composite materials of metal nanoparticles

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 25790-25797

  Kim, Kwang Hyon ^a,b   Husakou, Anton ^a   Herrmann, Joachim ^a  

^a MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b State Academy of Sciences   (North Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; LIGHT; METAL NANOPARTICLES; PROBES; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

DIELECTRIC COMPOSITES; FRACTIONAL DELAY; LIGHT PULSE; ON-CHIP DEVICES; PLASMON RESONANCES; REDUCED GROUP VELOCITIES; SATURABLE ABSORPTION; STRONG DISPERSION;

SLOW LIGHT;

EID: 84869035343     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.025790     Document Type: Article

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