Ultrafast plasmonic nanowire lasers near the surface plasmon frequency

Nature Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 870-876

  Sidiropoulos, Themistoklis P H ^a   Röder, Robert ^b   Geburt, Sebastian ^b   Hess, Ortwin ^a   Maier, Stefan A ^a   Ronning, Carsten ^b   Oulton, Rupert F ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; NANOWIRES; PLASMONICS; ZINC OXIDE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC EXCITATIONS; LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS; METAL-DIELECTRIC INTERFACE; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL; SURFACE PLASMON FREQUENCY; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; VACUUM WAVELENGTH; ZINC OXIDE (ZNO);

SURFACE PLASMONS;

EID: 84908573623     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys3103     Document Type: Article

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