Practicality of compensating the loss in the plasmonic waveguides using semiconductor gain medium

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Khurgin, Jacob B ^a   Sun, Greg ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAIN MATERIALS; GAIN MEDIUM; HIGH CURRENT DENSITIES; LIGHT CONFINEMENTS; LOSS COMPENSATION; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; PURCELL EFFECT; RECOMBINATION TIME; SUB-WAVELENGTH; THREE DIMENSIONS;

CURRENT DENSITY; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PUMPING (LASER); WAVEGUIDES;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84855524861     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3673849     Document Type: Article

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