@conference {Tsakmakidis2012,
	title = {Slow and stopped-light lasing in active plasmonic metamaterials},
	booktitle = {International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks},
	year = {2012},
	note = {cited By 1},
	abstract = {We outline recent advances in active gain-enhanced plasmonic metamaterials revealing and elucidating the inherent complex interplay of light, surface plasmon polaritons and gain materials to allow a compensation of dissipative losses in negative-refractive-index optical metamaterials and to achieve net steady-state amplification and nanoscopic lasing over a broad but ultrathin area. On the basis of a fully 3-dimensional Maxwell-Bloch Langevin approach we then demonstrate that in a suitably designed gain-enhanced plasmonic/ metamaterial heterostructure light pulses can be completely stopped at well-accessed complex-frequency zero-group-velocity points leading to thresholdless nanolasers that beat the diffraction limit via a novel, stopped-light mode-locking mechanism. {\textcopyright} 2012 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ICTON.2012.6254439},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84866999382\&doi=10.1109\%2fICTON.2012.6254439\&partnerID=40\&md5=efe6f412f374a14b232ee8f89cb56a10},
	author = {K. L. Tsakmakidis and Hess, O.}
}
