Optical gain medium for plasmonic devices

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8621, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Rivera, V A G ^a,b   Ledemi, Y ^b   Osorio, S P A ^a   Ferri, F A ^a   Messaddeq, Y ^b   Nunes, L A O ^a   Marega, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b CENTRE D OPTIQUE   (Canada)

Author keywords

gain medium; Metallic nanoparticles; plasmonic; tellurite glass

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC EXCITATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ERBIUM COMPOUNDS; GLASS; GLASS TRANSITION; IONS; LUMINESCENCE; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS;

ELECTRIC COUPLING; GAIN MEDIUM; LOCAL ELECTRIC FIELD; METALLIC NANOPARTICLES; METALLIC NANOSTRUCTURE; NANOWAVEGUIDES; PLASMONIC DEVICES; PLASMONICS; RESONANT EXCITATION; TELLURITE GLASS;

PLASMONICS;

EID: 84878141423     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2004596     Document Type: Conference Paper

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