Accounting for inhomogeneous broadening in nano-optics by electromagnetic modeling based on Monte Carlo methods

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Gudjonson, Herman ^a   Kats, Mikhail A ^a   Liu, Kun ^b,c   Nie, Zhihong ^d   Kumacheva, Eugenia ^c,e   Capasso, Federico ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Jilin University   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d University of Maryland   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

FDTD; Photonics; Random sampling; Stochastic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893842604     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1323392111     Document Type: Article

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