DocumentCode
521152
Title
Room temperature sub-wavelength plasmon laser
Author
Ma, R.-M. ; Oulton, R.F. ; Sorger, V.J. ; Zhang, X.
Author_Institution
NSF Center for Scalable & Integrated Nanomanufacturing, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
fYear
2010
fDate
16-21 May 2010
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
2
Abstract
We report plasmon lasers with optical confinement of 1/20th wavelength operating at room temperature. The strong confinement and efficient feedback arising from plasmonic total internal reflection enhance the spontaneous emission rate up to 20 times.
Keywords
Biomedical optical imaging; Laser feedback; Laser modes; Laser transitions; Optical feedback; Optical scattering; Plasmons; Pump lasers; Spontaneous emission; Temperature;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location
San Jose, CA, USA
Print_ISBN
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-55752-890-2
Type
conf
Filename
5500763
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