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Plasmon-resonant Nanorods as Multifunctional Imaging Agents
Online Presentations | 28 Dec 2006 | Contributor(s): Alexander Wei | 894 users
Gold nanorods have several outstanding characteristics as optical contrastagents for biomedical imaging. Their strong optical absorption atnear-infrared (NIR) frequencies can be used to generate contrast for opticalcoherence tomography (OCT) imaging, and is well matched for detectionmodalities...
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Surprises on the nanoscale: Plasmonic waves that travel backward and spin birefringence without magnetic fields
Online Presentations | 08 Jan 2007 | Contributor(s): Daniel Neuhauser | 963 users
As nanonphotonics and nanoelectronics are pushed down towards the molecular scale, interesting effects emerge. We discuss how birefringence (different propagation of two polarizations) is manifested and could be useful in the future for two systems: coherent plasmonic transport of near-field...
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Conquering Surface Plasmon Resonance Loss in Metallic Nanostructures
Online Presentations | 16 Oct 2007 | Contributor(s): Mikhail A. Noginov | 620 users
We have observed the compensation of loss in metal by gain indielectric in the mixture of Ag aggregate and rhodamine 6G dye. Thedemonstrated six-fold enhancement of the Rayleigh scattering is the evidence of the enhancement of the localized surface plasmon (SP) resonance. In the attenuated total...
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Routing Light with Nematicons: Light Localization and Steering in Liquid Crystals
Online Presentations | 10 Oct 2007 | Contributor(s): Gaetano Assanto | 559 users
Nematic liquid crystals support optical spatial solitons via light-induced molecular reorientation. Such all-optical waveguides can channel a signal towards a destination, hence permitting signal routing. Owing to the inherent anisotropy of nematic liquid crystals, molecular orientation and...
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Silicon Photonics: Opportunity Challenges and Recent Results
Online Presentations | 02 Nov 2007 | Contributor(s): Mario Paniccia | 5607 users
The silicon chip has been the mainstay of the electronics industry for the last 40 years and has revolutionized the way the world operates. Today a silicon chip the size of a fingernail contains nearly one billion transistors and has the computing power that only a decade ago would take up an...
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Plasmonic Metamaterials: Unusual Optics and Applications
Online Presentations | 28 Feb 2008 | Contributor(s): Igor Smolyaninov | 4479 users
Surface plasmon-polaritons (or plasmons) are collective excitations of the conduction electrons and the electromagnetic field on the surface of such good metals as gold and silver. Near the frequency of surface plasmon resonance plasmons may perceive regular dielectrics as negative index...
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Linear and Nonlinear Optical Devices Based on Slow Light Propagation: Figures of Merit
Online Presentations | 19 May 2008 | Contributor(s): Jacob B. Khurgin | 736 users
Performance of optical delay lines and nonlinear devices based on slow wave propagation in photonic crystal waveguides in the presence of higher order dispersion is analyzed and compared with other slow light schemes, such as coupled resonators, media with electromagnetically-induced...