Real-time observation of ultrafast Rabi oscillations between excitons and plasmons in metal nanostructures with J-aggregates

Nature Photonics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 128-132

  Vasa, Parinda ^a,b   Wang, Wei ^a   Pomraenke, Robert ^a   Lammers, Melanie ^a   Maiuri, Margherita ^c   Manzoni, Cristian ^c   Cerullo, Giulio ^c   Lienau, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING; COHERENT ENERGY TRANSFER; COHERENT MANIPULATION; METAL NANOSTRUCTURE; MICROSCOPIC MECHANISMS; OPTICAL NONLINEARITY; REAL-TIME OBSERVATION; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS;

DATA PROCESSING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; EXCITONS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTOEXCITATION; PLASMONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

AGGREGATES;

EID: 84873411998     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2012.340     Document Type: Article

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