Waveguides with a silver lining: Low threshold gain and giant modal gain in active cylindrical and coaxial plasmonic devices

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Saleh, Amr A E ^a   Dionne, Jennifer A ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

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EID: 84856505711     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.85.045407     Document Type: Article

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