Bowtie plasmonic quantum cascade laser antenna

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 13272-13281

  Yu, Nanfang ^a   Cubukcu, Ertugrul ^a   Diehl, Laurent ^a   Bour, David ^b,c   Corzine, Scott ^b,d   Zhu, Jintian ^b   Höfler, Gloria ^b,e   Crozier, Kenneth B ^a   Capasso, Federico ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGILENT LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c Bridgelux Inc   (United States)

^d INFINERA CORPORATION   (United States)

^e Argos Tech LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING SYSTEMS; INFRARED RADIATION; OPTICAL BAND GAPS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PLASMONS;

FIELD CONFINEMENT; NANOMETRIC GAPS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASER ANTENNAS;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 35148878595     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.013272     Document Type: Article

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