High Q Long-Range Surface Plasmon Polariton Modes in Sub-wavelength Metallic Microdisk Cavity

Plasmonics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 183-188

  Chen, Yi Hao ^a   Guo, Jay ^a  

^a University of Michigan   (United States)

Author keywords

Nanolaser; Semiconductor laser cavity; Surface plasmon mode; Whispering gallery mode

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953027301     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-010-9185-0     Document Type: Article

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