Compensation of surface plasmon loss by gain in dielectric medium

Journal of Nanophotonics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Noginov, Mikhail A ^a  

^a NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Metamaterials; Surface plasmon polaritons; Surface plasmons

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; METAMATERIALS; PHONONS; PHOTONS; SURFACE PLASMONS;

DIELECTRIC MEDIA; DIELECTRIC MEDIUM; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON; METALLIC NANOPARTICLES; METALLIC SURFACE; PROPAGATING SURFACE PLASMONS; PROPAGATION LENGTHS; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS;

PLASMONIC METAMATERIALS;

EID: 65549144333     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19342608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3073670     Document Type: Article

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