Completely stopped and dispersionless light in plasmonic waveguides

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 112, Issue 16, 2014, Pages

  Tsakmakidis, Kosmas L ^a   Pickering, Tim W ^a   Hamm, Joachim M ^a   Page, A Freddie ^a   Hess, Ortwin ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; QUANTUM THEORY;

ATOMIC VAPOR; COHERENT POPULATION OSCILLATION; DISPERSIONLESS; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; QUANTUM COHERENCE EFFECTS; RUBY CRYSTAL; TELECOMMUNICATION WAVELENGTHS; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING OXIDE;

LIGHT;

EID: 84899494640     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.167401     Document Type: Article

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