Coupling of a single-photon emitter in nanodiamond to surface plasmons of a nanochannel-enclosed silver nanowire

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 15530-15541

  Aramesh, Morteza ^a,b   Cervenka, Jiri ^a   Roberts, Ann ^a   Djalalian Assl, Amir ^a   Rajasekharan, Ranjith ^a   Fang, Jinghua ^b   Ostrikov, Kostya ^b   Prawer, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; NANODIAMONDS; NANOWIRES; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EFFECTIVE PARAMETERS; NITROGEN VACANCIES; OPTICAL FREQUENCY; SILVER NANOWIRES; SINGLE PHOTON EMITTERS; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; SURFACE PLASMONS; TRANSMITTED POWER;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84903739136     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.015530     Document Type: Article

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