Integrated all-optical infrared switchable plasmonic quantum cascade laser

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2537-2541

  Kohoutek, John ^a   Bonakdar, Alireza ^a   Gelfand, Ryan ^a   Dey, Dibyendu ^a   Hassani Nia, Iman ^a   Fathipour, Vala ^a   Memis, Omer Gokalp ^a   Mohseni, Hooman ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

all optical switch; infrared; Nanoantenna; plasmonics; QCL; strong coupling; terahertz

Indexed keywords

ALL OPTICAL SWITCH; NANOANTENNAS; PLASMONICS; QCL; STRONG COUPLING; TERA HERTZ;

GERMANIUM; INFRARED RADIATION; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PLASMONS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ANTENNAS;

ARTICLE; INFRARED RADIATION; LASER; QUANTUM THEORY;

INFRARED RAYS; LASERS; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84861078869     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl3007424     Document Type: Article

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