Optical gain, spontaneous and stimulated emission of surface plasmon polaritons in confined plasmonic waveguide

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 16327-16334

  Des Francs, G Colas ^a   Bramant, P ^a   Grandidier, J ^a,b   Bouhelier, A ^a   Weeber, J C ^a   Dereux, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARTICLE OPTICS; PHONONS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ACTIVE MEDIUM; GAIN DISTRIBUTION; LOCAL DENSITY OF STATE; PHYSICAL INTERPRETATION; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; SURFACE PLASMON-POLARITON WAVEGUIDES; THEORETICAL MODELS;

WAVEGUIDES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; STANDARD; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; WEIGHTS AND MEASURES;

EID: 77955635461     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.016327     Document Type: Article

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