Transparency and slow light in a four-level quantum system near a plasmonic nanostructure

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Evangelou, Sofia ^a   Yannopapas, Vassilios ^a   Paspalakis, Emmanuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION SPECTRA; LINEAR ABSORPTION; LINEARLY POLARIZED LASER FIELD; METAL-COATED; OPTICAL TRANSPARENCY; PLASMONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; QUANTUM SYSTEM; SURFACE PLASMONS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL ARRAYS; V-TYPE TRANSITIONS;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; NANOSTRUCTURES; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM OPTICS; SLOW LIGHT; TRANSPARENCY;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84869050057     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.86.053811     Document Type: Article

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