A novel planar metamaterial design for electromagnetically induced transparency and slow light

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 25159-25166

  Wang, Junqiao ^a   Yuan, Baohe ^a,b   Fan, Chunzhen ^a   He, Jinna ^a   Ding, Pei ^c   Xue, Qianzhong ^d   Liang, Erjun ^a  

^a ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF WATER RESOURCES AND ELECTRIC POWER   (China)

^c ZHENGZHOU INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICAL INDUSTRY MANAGEMENT   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANORINGS; NANORODS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM OPTICS; SLOW LIGHT;

ACTIVE PLASMONIC; COMPOUND STRUCTURES; ELECTRIC DIPOLE RESONANCE; ELECTROMAGNETICALLY INDUCED TRANSPARENCY; METAMATERIAL STRUCTURES; OPTICAL SENSING; PLASMONIC METAMATERIALS; SLOW-LIGHT DEVICES;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 84886406259     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.025159     Document Type: Article

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