Ultrafast silicon-based active plasmonics at telecom wavelengths

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 19761-19769

  Caspers, Jan N ^a,b   Rotenberg, Nir ^a   Van Driel, Henry M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ACTIVE PLASMONICS; COUPLING RESONANCE; DIELECTRIC CONSTANTS; FREE CARRIERS; GRATING COUPLERS; PROBE PULSE; PUMP FLUENCE; PUMP PULSE; SILICON-BASED; SPECTRAL SHIFT; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; SURFACE RECOMBINATIONS; TELECOM WAVELENGTHS; ULTRA-FAST;

PUMPS;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TELECOMMUNICATION;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; REFRACTOMETRY; SILICON; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 77956999952     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.019761     Document Type: Article

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