Laser-launched evanescent surface plasmon polariton field utilized as a direct coherent pumping source to generate emitted nonlinear four-wave mixing radiation

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 4991-5001

  Zhang, Qun ^a,b   Lin, Ke ^a   Luo, Yi ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; GRAPHENE; NANOPHOTONICS; PARTICLE OPTICS; PHONONS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; PUMPING (LASER); PUMPS; QUANTUM THEORY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ACTIVE PLASMONICS; COHERENT PUMPING; DIELECTRIC/METAL INTERFACE; FIELD ENHANCEMENT EFFECT; FILM INTERFACES; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS;

FOUR WAVE MIXING;

EID: 79952583986     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.004991     Document Type: Article

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