Electrically tunable surface plasmon source for THz applications

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 138-145

  Khoury, Jed ^a   Haji Saeed, Bahareh ^a   Buchwald, Walter ^a   Woods, Charles ^a   Wentzell, Sandra ^b   Krejca, Brian ^b   Kierstead, John ^b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SOLID STATE SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Plasmonic; solid state tunable lasers; surface plasmon; terahertz (THz)

Indexed keywords

CORRUGATED STRUCTURES; ELECTRICAL PUMPING; ELECTRICALLY PUMPED; ELECTRICALLY TUNABLE; EMISSION ENHANCEMENT; HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY; MICRO GRATINGS; NANOGRATING; PLASMONIC; SMITH-PURCELL; SURFACE PLASMON; SURFACE PLASMON WAVES; SURFACE PLASMONS; TERAHERTZ; TERAHERTZ SOURCES; THIN DIELECTRIC LAYER; THIN METALS; UPPER LAYER; WIDELY TUNABLE;

CORRUGATED METAL; DESIGN; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRONS; FREE ELECTRON LASERS; LASER TUNING; LASERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PLASMONS; PUMPS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SURFACES;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 79951556943     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2010.2049255     Document Type: Article

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