Surface plasmon-polariton propagation in piecewise linear chains of composite nanospheres: The role of optical gain and chain layout

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 19973-19986

  Udagedara, Indika B ^a   Rukhlenko, Ivan D ^a   Premaratne, Malin ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLES; NANOSPHERES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; BEND ANGLE; BENT WAVEGUIDES; COMPOSITE NANOSPHERES; DESIGN RULES; DISPERSION RELATIONS; ENERGY TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; GAIN MEDIUM; INTERPARTICLE DISTANCES; METAL LOSS; METALLIC NANOPARTICLES; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; PARTICLE SEPARATION; PIECEWISE LINEAR; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; PROPAGATION LENGTHS; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; TRANSVERSE MODE;

WAVEGUIDES;

METAL NANOPARTICLE; NANOSPHERE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRICITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; OSCILLOMETRY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRICITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOSPHERES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; OSCILLOMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 80053931932     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.019973     Document Type: Article

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