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Collective Plasmon-Modes in Gain Media

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The interactions of light with matter have been heavily investigated and well described from the end of the nineteenth century and throughout the twentieth century. By now, the phenomena of light propagation in matter, such as absorption, nonlinear absorption, refraction, reflection, dispersion, etc., are considered to be perfectly well understood and described from macro- and micro-scale points of view. For a comprehensive description of the phenomenology of light–matter interaction, the reader is invited to read the major references [1, 2]. The late twentieth century has witnessed major breakthroughs and significant progress in the fields of fabrication, observation, and characterization of objects at incredibly small sizes, giving rise to a whole set of new terms with the prefix “nano-” [3–7]. This rapid emergence has resulted in many major advances in scientific fields related to nano-objects (like nanoparticles, nanorods, nanofilms) or nanostructured materials.

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Rivera, V.A.G., Silva, O.B., Ledemi, Y., Messaddeq, Y., Marega, E. (2015). Quantum Aspects of Light–Matter Interaction. In: Collective Plasmon-Modes in Gain Media. SpringerBriefs in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09525-7_1

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