Surface plasmonic lasing via the amplification of coupled surface plasmon waves inside dielectric-metal-dielectric waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 16113-16123

  Kumar, Ashwani ^a   Yu, S F ^a   Li, X F ^a   Lau, S P ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; METALS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDES;

LASING CHARACTERISTICS; METAL DIELECTRICS; METAL-DIELECTRIC INTERFACE; METAL-DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDE; PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTICS; SINGLE LONGITUDINAL MODE; SURFACE PLASMON WAVES; SURFACE PLASMONS;

PLASMONS;

METAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASER; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICS; PHYSICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASERS; METALS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICS; PHYSICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 54749122038     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.016113     Document Type: Article

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