Modal amplification in active waveguides with hyperbolic dispersion at telecommunication frequencies

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 21088-21105

  Smalley, Joseph S T ^a   Vallini, Felipe ^a   Kanté, Boubacar ^a   Fainman, Yeshaiahu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); ELECTRIC FIELDS; PHASE SPACE METHODS; WAVEGUIDES;

ACTIVE WAVEGUIDES; CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC MODES; HYPERBOLIC DISPERSION; RADIAL COMPONENT; SYMMETRIC WAVEGUIDES; TELECOMMUNICATION FREQUENCIES; THRESHOLD CONDITION;

AMPLIFICATION;

EID: 84906766354     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.021088     Document Type: Article

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