Linewidth enhancement in spasers and plasmonic nanolasers

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 2147-2153

  Ginzburg, Pavel ^a   Zayats, Anatoly V ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PLASMONS; RESONATORS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ACTIVE LAYER; ACTIVE PLASMONIC; GAIN MEDIUM; LINE BROADENING; LINEWIDTH ENHANCEMENT; LINEWIDTH ENHANCEMENT FACTOR; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; NANO LASERS; NANO SCALE; NEAR-FIELD; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC RESONATORS; QUASI-STATIC; SPECTRAL PARAMETERS; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; TIME DEPENDENCE;

LINEWIDTH;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; LASER; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874055913     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.002147     Document Type: Article

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