Proposal for compact solid-state III-V single-plasmon sources

Physical Review X

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Gan, C H ^a,c   Hugonin, J P ^a   Lalanne, P ^a,b  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

^b Laboratoire Photonique   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Photonics; Plasmonics; Quantum Information

Indexed keywords

AT RESONANCE; II-IV SEMICONDUCTORS; LORENTZ RECIPROCITY; NEAR-INFRARED WAVELENGTH; PLASMONIC; PLASMONICS; QUANTUM INFORMATION; QUANTUM NETWORK; SPONTANEOUS DECAY RATES; ULTRA-SMALL;

DESIGN; PHOTONICS; QUANTUM OPTICS; RIDGE WAVEGUIDES;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84862604734     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.2.021008     Document Type: Article

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