A theoretical study of a compact and highly efficient isolator consisting of nonlinear plasma and matching metamaterials

Laser Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Kong, Xiang Kun ^a,b   Liu, Shao Bin ^a   Zhang, Hai Feng ^a,c   Dai, Yi ^a   Yang, Huan ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c Artillery Academy of PLA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC CONFIGURATIONS; BETTER PERFORMANCE; INCIDENT WAVE FREQUENCIES; MULTILAYER STRUCTURES; TOTAL TRANSMISSION; TRANSMISSION PROPERTY; TUNNELING MECHANISM; UNIDIRECTIONAL WAVES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 84879108977     PISSN: 1054660X     EISSN: 15556611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1054-660X/23/5/055404     Document Type: Article

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