Ultrashort self-induced transparency plasmon solitons

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 24, 2013, Pages

  Marini, Andrea ^a   Biancalana, Fabio ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT   (Germany)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCH EQUATION; DINGER EQUATION; KERR NONLINEARITY; PULSE DURATIONS; SELF-INDUCED TRANSPARENCY; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; TRANSMISSION MECHANISMS; VALENCE ELECTRON;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; GOLD; GROUP VELOCITY DISPERSION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PLASMONS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 84879122866     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.243901     Document Type: Article

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