Spontaneous emission of guided polaritons by quantum dot coupled to metallic nanowire: Beyond the dipole approximation

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 17570-17581

  Rukhlenko, Ivan D ^a   Handapangoda, Dayan ^a   Premaratne, Malin ^a   Fedorov, Anatoly V ^b   Baranov, Alexander V ^b   Jagadish, Chennupati ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ITMO UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOWIRES; PHONONS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

DIPOLE APPROXIMATION; FORBIDDEN TRANSITIONS; MAXIMUM EMISSIONS; METALLIC NANOWIRES; NANOMETER DIMENSIONS; PLASMONIC DEVICES; QUANTUM EMITTERS; SPATIAL IN-HOMOGENEITY;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

METAL; NANOTUBE; QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; LIGHTING; METALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTUBES; QUANTUM DOTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 70349687574     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.017570     Document Type: Article

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