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L. A. Sweatlock, S. A. Maier, H. A. Atwater, J. J. Penninkhof and A. Polman, “Highly Confined Electromagnetic Fields in Arrays of Strongly Coupled Ag Nanoparticles,” Physical Review, Vol. 71, No. 23, 2005, Article ID: 235408.

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• TITLE: Nanostructured Metal Aggregate-Assisted Lasing in Rhodamine 6G Solutions

  AUTHORS: Valery A. Donchenko, Yuri E. Geints, Vladimir A. Kharenkov, Alexey A. Zemlyanov

  KEYWORDS: Nano-Composite; Luminescence; Lasing; Metal Agglomerate; Surface Plasmon-Polariton Resonance

  JOURNAL NAME: Optics and Photonics Journal, Vol.3 No.8A, December 19, 2013

  ABSTRACT: We report on the experimental demonstration of considerable lowering of stimulated luminescence (lasing) threshold in R6G laser dye solution doped with metal agglomerates (Ag, Al, Ni) upon second harmonic of Nd:YAG-laser illumination. Due to strong structural coupling between individual nanoparticles, they may form fractal agglomerates providing an extreme optical pump-field enhancement near their complicated surface. For the first time, we have observed more than twofold increase in lasing efficiency of metal aggregated dye solution as compared to non-agglomerated monomeric metal nanocolloids. No random laser manifestation or surface plasmon-polariton resonances excitations were observed.