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Frontiers in Optics

A two-level Atom as a Macroscopic Scatterer for Ultraconfined 2D Surface Plasmon Polaritons

Rituraj Rituraj, Meir Orenstein, Shanhui Fan

Published Jan 1, 2020• 0 citations
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Abstract

We study the scattering of a single photon in the SPP mode by an atom in the regime where the photon wavelength becomes comparable to the atomic size. The spectral signatures are tunable and significantly differ from the usual Lorentzian response.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2020.fw4c.6

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