Beaming circularly polarized photons from quantum dots coupled with plasmonic spiral antenna

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 19297-19304

  Rui, Guanghao ^a,b   Chen, Weibin ^a   Abeysinghe, Don C ^c   Nelson, Robert L ^d   Zhan, Qiwen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c 705 Engineering Research Center   (United States)

^d AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; LIGHT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

ANGULAR WIDTH; ANTENNA DIRECTIVITY; ANTENNA GAINS; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED PHOTONS; DIRECTIONAL EMISSION; EMISSION PATTERN; EMITTED PHOTONS; FAR FIELD; FIELD INTENSITY; INTEGRATED PHOTONIC CIRCUIT; NANO SCALE; OPTICAL ANTENNAS; PHOTON EMISSIONS; PHOTON SOURCES; PLASMONIC; POLARIZATION EXTINCTION RATIO; SINGLE MOLECULE; SPIN STATE; STRUCTURAL CHIRALITY;

SPIRAL ANTENNAS;

QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSDUCER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; QUANTUM DOTS; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 84865600102     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.019297     Document Type: Article

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