Demonstration of a spaser-based nanolaser

Nature

Volumn 460, Issue 7259, 2009, Pages 1110-1112

  Noginov, M A ^a   Zhu, G ^a   Belgrave, A M ^a   Bakker, R ^b   Shalaev, V M ^b   Narimanov, E E ^b   Stout, S ^a,c   Herz, E ^c   Suteewong, T ^c   Wiesner, U ^c  

^a NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD; NANOPARTICLE; SILICON DIOXIDE;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; GOLD; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHYSICS; SILICA; VISIBLE SPECTRUM;

ARTICLE; LASER; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; OSCILLATION; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 69349103221     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08318     Document Type: Article

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