Flexible manipulation of plasmon dephasing time via the adjustable Fano asymmetric dimer

Yang Xu; Yulu Qin; Peng Lang; Boyu Ji; Xiaowei Song; Jingquan Lin

doi:10.1364/PRJ.460638

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