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Lasing at the nanometre scale promises strong light-matter interactions and ultrafast operation. Plasmonic resonances supported by metallic nanoparticles have extremely small mode volumes and high field enhancements, making them an ideal…
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Nonlinear optical behavior of recently introduced surface plasmon toy black hole models has been considered. Physical realization of these models involves droplets of liquid on a metal surface, which supports propagation of surface…
Since Dicke's seminal paper on coherence in spontaneous radiation by atomic ensembles, superradiance has been extensively studied. Subradiance, on the contrary, has remained elusive, mainly because subradiant states are weakly coupled to…
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