Room-temperature subwavelength metallo-dielectric lasers

Nature Photonics

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 395-399

  Nezhad, Maziar P ^a   Simic, Aleksandar ^a   Bondarenko, Olesya ^a   Slutsky, Boris ^a   Mizrahi, Amit ^a   Feng, Liang ^a   Lomakin, Vitaliy ^a   Fainman, Yeshaiahu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMISSION WAVELENGTH; LASING EMISSIONS; METALLODIELECTRIC; OPTICALLY PUMPED; PULSED LASER EMISSION; RESOLUTION LIMITS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; THREE DIMENSIONS;

OPTICAL PUMPING;

PULSED LASERS;

EID: 77954834522     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2010.88     Document Type: Article

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