Interplay between strong coupling and radiative damping of excitons and surface plasmon polaritons in hybrid nanostructures

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1056-1064

  Wang, Wei ^a   Vasa, Parinda ^a,b   Pomraenke, Robert ^a   Vogelgesang, Ralf ^a   De Sio, Antonietta ^a   Sommer, Ephraim ^a   Maiuri, Margherita ^c   Manzoni, Cristian ^c   Cerullo, Giulio ^c   Lienau, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

exciton plasmon coupling; metallic nanostructures; molecular aggregates; spectral interferometry; sub and superradiance; ultrafast coherent spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

COHERENT SPECTROSCOPIES; DIPOLE DIPOLE INTERACTIONS; HYBRID NANOSTRUCTURES; METALLIC NANOSTRUCTURE; MOLECULAR AGGREGATE; SPECTRAL INTERFEROMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; ULTRAFAST NONLINEAR RESPONSE;

AGGREGATES; DAMPING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; EXCITONS; HYBRID SYSTEMS; INTERFEROMETRY; NANOSTRUCTURES; OSCILLATORS (MECHANICAL); PHONONS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84893452425     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn405981k     Document Type: Article

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