Resonance energy transfer and superradiance mediated by plasmonic nanowaveguides

Nano Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3129-3134

  Martín Cano, Diego ^a   Martín Moreno, Luis ^b   García Vidal, Francisco J ^a   Moreno, Esteban ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

energy transfer; quantum optics; superradiance; Surface plasmons

Indexed keywords

NANOWAVEGUIDES; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; SIMPLIFIED MODELS; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SURFACE PLASMONS; WAVE-GUIDING;

ENERGY TRANSFER; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PHOTONS; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUANTUM THEORY; RADIATION; RESONANCE; SUPERRADIANCE; WAVEGUIDES;

PLASMONS;

EID: 77955588518     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl101876f     Document Type: Article

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