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Considering the increasing number of experimental results in the manufacturing process of quantum dots with different geometries, and the fact that most numerical methods that can be used to investigate quantum dots with non-trivial…
Experimental evidence of mode-selective evanescent power coupling at telecommunication frequencies with efficiencies up to 75 % from a tapered optical fiber to a carefully designed metal nanoparticle plasmon waveguide is presented. The…
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