Amplification of surface plasmon polaritons in the presence of nonlinearity and spectral signatures of threshold crossover

Optics Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 2864-2866

  Marini, A ^a   Gorbach, A V ^a   Skryabin, D V ^a   Zayats, A V ^b  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; DISPERSION (WAVES); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PHONONS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

LINEAR GAIN; NONLINEAR DISPERSION; NONLINEAR SATURATION; PROPAGATION DISTANCES; SPECTRAL SIGNATURE; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; TWO-LEVEL ATOM;

PLASMONS;

EID: 70349209108     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.34.002864     Document Type: Article

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