Strong coupling between a dipole emitter and localized plasmons: Enhancement by sharp silver tips

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 27602-27610

  D'Agostino, Stefania ^a,b   Alpeggiani, Filippo ^a   Andreani, Lucio Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECAY (ORGANIC); PLASMONS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; SILVER;

DISCRETE DIPOLE APPROXIMATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTIONS; LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON; NONMONOTONIC BEHAVIORS; SPHERICAL NANOPARTICLES; STRONG-COUPLING REGIME; THEORETICAL INVESTIGATIONS;

NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 84888214433     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.027602     Document Type: Article

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