All-optical modulation by plasmonic excitation of CdSe quantum dots

Nature Photonics

Volumn 1, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 402-406

  Pacifici, Domenico ^a   Lezec, Henri J ^a,b   Atwater, Harry A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING BLOCKES; CDSE QUANTUM DOTS; EFFICIENT INTERACTION; HIGH POWER DENSITY; LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS; METAL-DIELECTRIC INTERFACE; PLANAR DEVICES; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS;

DATA PROCESSING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; LIGHT MODULATORS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

LIGHT MODULATION;

EID: 34547254703     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2007.95     Document Type: Article

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