Cavity-free plasmonic nanolasing enabled by dispersionless stopped light

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Pickering, Tim ^a   Hamm, Joachim M ^a   Page, A Freddie ^a   Wuestner, Sebastian ^a   Hess, Ortwin ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK MECHANISM; INTERFACE; LIGHT; OPTICAL METHOD; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; DISPERSION; DYNAMICS; LIGHT; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PLASMONIC NANOLASING; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RADIATION; SPECTRUM; THICKNESS;

EID: 84921057052     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5972     Document Type: Article

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