Efficient coupling of single photons to single plasmons

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 13829-13835

  Celebrano, M ^a   Lettow, R ^a   Kukura, P ^a,b   Agio, M ^a   Renn, A ^a   Gotzinger S ^a   Sandoghdar, V ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; PLASMONS; SILVER;

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; EFFICIENT COUPLING; NANO-OBJECTS; NARROW BANDS; PLASMON-POLARITONS; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; SINGLE PHOTONS; STRONG COUPLING; SUB-SHOT NOISE;

PHOTONS;

METAL NANOPARTICLE; SILVER;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTON; QUANTUM THEORY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

INTERFEROMETRY; LASERS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SILVER; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 77953859410     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.013829     Document Type: Article

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