Spontaneous decay of a single quantum dot coupled to a metallic slot waveguide in the presence of leaky plasmonic modes

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 12489-12498

  Chen, Yuntian ^a   Gregersen, Niels ^a   Nielsen, Torben Roland ^a   Mørk, Jesper ^a   Lodahl, Peter ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; WAVEGUIDES;

COATING LAYER; COUPLING EFFICIENCY; INHOMOGENEITIES; QUANTUM DOT; RADIATION MODE; SELF ASSEMBLED QUANTUM DOTS; SINGLE MODE; SINGLE QUANTUM DOT; SLOT WAVEGUIDE; SPONTANEOUS DECAY;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

EID: 77953568341     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.012489     Document Type: Article

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