Plasmonic amplification with ultra-high optical gain at room temperature

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Liu, Ning ^a   Wei, Hong ^a   Li, Jing ^a   Wang, Zhuoxian ^a   Tian, Xiaorui ^a   Pan, Anlian ^b   Xu, Hongxing ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84886369501     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01967     Document Type: Article

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