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Enhancement of surface plasmons in an Ag aggregate by optical gain in a dielectric medium
M A Noginov1, G Zhu, M Bahoura
1Center for Materials Research, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, Virginia 23504, USA. mnoginov@nsu.edu
Optics Letters
|September 27, 2006
Abstract:
We have observed the compensation of loss in a metal by a gain in a dielectric medium in the mixture of an Ag aggregate and a Rhodamine 6G dye. The demonstrated sixfold enhancement of the Rayleigh scattering is the evidence of the enhancement of the surface-plasmon resonance. The reported experimental observation facilitates many applications of nanoplasmonics.
