• DocumentCode
    1670092
  • Title

    Room temperature plasmon nanolaser

  • Author

    Ma, R.-M. ; Oulton, R.F. ; Sorger, V.J. ; Bartal, G. ; Zhang, X.

  • Author_Institution
    NSF Center for Scalable & Integrated Nanomanufacturing, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We report plasmon lasers with strong cavity feedback and optical confinement to 1/20th wavelength. Strong feedback arises from total internal reflection of plasmons, while confinement enhances the spontaneous emission rate by up to 20 times.
  • Keywords
    II-VI semiconductors; cadmium compounds; laser cavity resonators; laser feedback; magnesium compounds; nanophotonics; plasmonics; silver; spontaneous emission; CdS-MgF2-Ag; optical confinement; plasmon nanolaser; spontaneous emission; strong cavity feedback; temperature 293 K to 298 K; total internal reflection; Cavity resonators; Laser excitation; Laser feedback; Laser modes; Plasmons; Spontaneous emission;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1839-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6326282