Modeling surface plasmon-polariton gain in planar metallic structures

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 20191-20202

  De Leon, Israel ^a   Berini, Pierre ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b Spectalis Corp   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; METALS; PHONONS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; DEVIATION FACTOR; GAIN DISTRIBUTION; LONG-RANGE SURFACE PLASMONS; METAL SURFACES; METALLIC STRUCTURES; POSITION DEPENDENTS; THEORETICAL MODELING;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

METAL NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 70749150081     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.020191     Document Type: Article

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