Coherent amplification and noise in gain-enhanced nanoplasmonic metamaterials: A maxwell-bloch langevin approach

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2420-2431

  Pusch, Andreas ^a   Wuestner, Sebastian ^a   Hamm, Joachim M ^a   Tsakmakidis, Kosmas L ^a   Hess, Ortwin ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

amplification; loss compensation; Maxwell Bloch theory; metamaterials; nanolasing; plasmonics; quantum noise

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSIONS; EMITTED LIGHT; LANGEVIN; LASER DYES; LIGHT FIELDS; LOSS-COMPENSATION; MAXWELL-BLOCH; MAXWELL-BLOCH MODEL; MAXWELL-BLOCH THEORY; MODE COMPETITION; NANOLASING; NEGATIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; NEGATIVE-INDEX; OPTICAL FREQUENCY; OPTICALLY PUMPED; PLASMONICS; RELAXATION OSCILLATION; SPATIALLY RESOLVED; SUBWAVELENGTH FOCUSING; ULTRAFAST RELAXATION; VIABLE SOLUTIONS;

AMPLIFICATION; DYNAMICS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM NOISE; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 84859134400     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn204692x     Document Type: Article

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