Graphene active plasmonics and their applications to terahertz lasers and sensors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8993, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Otsuji, Taiichi ^a,b   Satou, Akira ^a,b   Watanabe, Takayuki ^a,b   Dubinov, Alexander ^c   Popov, Vyacheslav ^d,e   Tombet, Stephane Albon Boubanga ^a,b   Mitin, Vladimir ^f   Ryzhii, Victor ^a,b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JSTCREST   (Japan)

^c LOBACHEVSKY STATE UNIVERSITY OF NIZHNY NOVGOROD   (Russian Federation)

^d INSTITUTE OF RADIO ENGINEERING AND ELECTRONICS   (Russian Federation)

^e SARATOV STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^f UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

grapheme; laser; Plasmon; sensor; superradiance; surface plasmon polariton; terahertz

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; GRAPHENE; INFRARED LASERS; LASERS; NANOPHOTONICS; PARTICLE OPTICS; SENSORS; SUPERRADIANCE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TERAHERTZ WAVES;

ACTIVE PLASMONICS; CARRIER POPULATION; GATE METALLIZATION; GRAPHEME; PROPAGATING SURFACE PLASMONS; SENSITIVE DETECTION; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; TERA HERTZ;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84897454530     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2042328     Document Type: Conference Paper

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