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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 23, Issue 17, Pages 21983-21993Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.021983
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- RFBR [12-02-01093, 13-02-00407, 13-02-92660]
- Dynasty Foundation
- NSF [DMR-1312707]
- PSC-CUNY award
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Materials Research [1312707] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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At the plasmon resonance, high Joule losses in a metal nanoparticle of a spaser result in its low Q-factor. Due to the latter, to achieve the spasing regime, in which the number of coherent plasmons exceeds the number of incoherent plasmons, unsustainably high pump rates may be required. We show that under the condition of loss compensation by a spaser driven by an external optical wave, the number of coherent plasmons increases dramatically, and the quantum noise is suppressed. Since the compensation of losses of the driving wave may occur even near the spasing threshold, the number of coherent plasmons may exceed the number of spontaneously excited plasmons at achievable pump rates. (C) 2015 Optical Society of America
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