Measuring gain and noise in active long-range surface plasmon-polariton waveguides

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  De Leon, Israel ^a   Berini, Pierre ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b Spectalis Corp   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE POWER MEASUREMENT; AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSIONS; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; GAIN MEDIUM; LONG-RANGE SURFACE PLASMONS; NOISE CHARACTERISTIC; OPTICAL BAND WIDTH; OPTICALLY PUMPED DYE; STRIPE WAVEGUIDE;

PHONONS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; WAVEGUIDES;

PHOTONS;

EID: 79953647678     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3555337     Document Type: Article

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