Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 19, Issue 7, 073602(2021)
Ultrafast control of slow light in THz electromagnetically induced transparency metasurfaces
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Yi Zhao, Qiuping Huang, Honglei Cai, Xiaoxia Lin, Hongchuan He, Hao Cheng, Tian Ma, Yalin Lu, "Ultrafast control of slow light in THz electromagnetically induced transparency metasurfaces," Chin. Opt. Lett. 19, 073602 (2021)
Category: Nanophotonics, Metamaterials, and Plasmonics
Received: Sep. 8, 2020
Accepted: Dec. 19, 2020
Posted: Dec. 21, 2020
Published Online: Apr. 2, 2021
The Author Email: Qiuping Huang (qphuang@ustc.edu.cn), Yalin Lu (yllu@ustc.edu.cn)