Title :
Analysis of surface plasmon guided sub-wavelength microdisk cavity
Author :
Chen, Yi-Hao ; Guo, L. Jay
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Abstract :
A metal-coated microdisk supporting surface plasmon guided whispering gallery mode has been proposed to function as a nanolaser. We present numerical analysis to show the scaling advantages of such a structure over the traditional microdisk cavity.
Keywords :
laser cavity resonators; microcavities; microdisc lasers; nanophotonics; surface plasmons; metal-coated microdisk; nanolaser; surface plasmon guided subwavelength microdisk cavity; whispering gallery mode; Finite difference methods; Laser modes; Optical surface waves; Optical waveguides; Plasmons; Propagation losses; Q factor; Resonance; Semiconductor lasers; Time domain analysis; microdisk cavity; nano laser; surface plasmon polariton; whispering gallary mode;
Conference_Titel :
IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2008. LEOS 2008. 21st Annual Meeting of the
Conference_Location :
Acapulco
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1931-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1932-6
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2008.4688619
