Optical tuning and ultrafast dynamics of high-temperature superconducting terahertz metamaterials

Nanophotonics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 117-123

  Singh, Ranjan ^a   Xiong, Jie ^a,b   Azad, Abul K ^a   Yang, Hao ^a,c   Trugman, Stuart A ^a   Jia, Q X ^a   Taylor, Antoinette J ^a   Chen, Hou Tong ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

High temperature superconductor; Metamaterials; Photoexcitation; Split ring resonator; Terahertz; Ultrafast dynamics

Indexed keywords

HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS; INDUCTANCE; INFRARED DEVICES; LASER PULSES; METAMATERIALS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PHOTOEXCITATION; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM THEORY; RESONANCE; RESONATORS; RING GAGES; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; ULTRAFAST LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES; YTTRIUM BARIUM COPPER OXIDES;

HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTING; HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTING FILMS; NEAR INFRARED FEMTOSECOND LASER; RESONANCE FREQUENCY SHIFT; SPLIT RING RESONATOR; SPLIT-RING RESONATORS (SRR); TERA HERTZ; ULTRA-FAST DYNAMICS;

SUPERCONDUCTING FILMS;

EID: 84869048117     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21928614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2012-0007     Document Type: Article

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