Ultrafast all-optical switching via coherent modulation of metamaterial absorption

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 14, 2014, Pages

  Fang, Xu ^a   Tseng, Ming Lun ^b   Ou, Jun Yu ^a   Macdonald, Kevin F ^a   Tsai, Din Ping ^b,c   Zheludev, Nikolay I ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c RESEARCH CENTER FOR APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; LIGHT MODULATORS; MODULATION; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING;

COHERENT INTERACTION; COHERENT NETWORK; LOW-INTENSITY; MODULATION BANDWIDTH; NEAR INFRARED; OPTICAL WAVES; SWITCHING CONTRAST; ULTRAFAST ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 84898981336     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4870635     Document Type: Article

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