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Frontiers in Optics

Comparison of Coherent and Incoherent Drive in SPASER

Ankit Purohit, Akhilesh Kumar Mishra

Published Jan 1, 2021• 0 citations
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This article theoretically demonstrates the superiority of coherent control over the incoherent pump drive in exciting the localized surface plasmon (LSP) modes of a silver nanosphere adjacent to a three-level gain medium.
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10.1364/fio.2021.jw7a.93

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