Habitat for Creative Electromagneticists

Active Coated Nano-Particle Lasers


Goals

We are studying how gain can be used to overcome losses in metals at optical frequencies. We are studying how metamaterial ideas can lead to electrically small optical resonators that can be coupled with gain media to achieve highly-subwavelength sized lasers.

 

Papers

  1. S. Arslanagic and R. W. Ziolkowski, “Active coated nano-particle excited by an arbitrarily located electric Hertzian dipole - resonance and transparency effects,” to appear in J. Opt. A, 2009.  

  2. J. A. Gordon and R. W. Ziolkowski, “CNP optical metamaterials,” Opt. Exp., vol. 16, no. 9, pp. 6692-6716, April 2008.  

  3. J. A. Gordon and R. W. Ziolkowski, “Colors generated by tunable plasmon resonances and their potential applications to ambiently illuminated color displays,” Solid State Comm, vol. 146, pp. 228-238, doi:10.1016/j.ssc.2007.08.046, April 2008.  

  4. J. A. Gordon and R. W. Ziolkowski, “Investigating functionalized active coated nano-particles for use in nano-sensing applications,” Opt. Exp., vol. 15, Issue 20, pp. 12562-12582, October 2007.  

  5. J. A. Gordon and R. W. Ziolkowski, “The design and simulated performance of a coated nano-particle laser,” Opt. Exp., Vol. 15, Issue 5, pp. 2622-2653, March 2007.