Ultralow-power and ultrafast all-optical tunable plasmon-induced transparency in metamaterials at optical communication range

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Zhu, Yu ^a   Hu, Xiaoyong ^a   Fu, Yulan ^a   Yang, Hong ^a   Gong, Qihuang ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

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Indexed keywords

DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASER; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TELECOMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT FAILURE;

ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; OPTICAL DEVICES; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 84881463863     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02338     Document Type: Article

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