Model for describing plasmon-enhanced lasers that combines rate equations with finite-difference time-domain

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2791-2797

  Dridi, Montacer ^a   Schatz, George C ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS; INTENSITY THRESHOLD; METALLIC STRUCTURES; NEAR FIELD REGION; PLASMONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; POPULATION INVERSIONS; RATE-EQUATION MODELS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MOLECULES; NANORODS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; STIMULATED EMISSION;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84887277512     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.30.002791     Document Type: Article

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