Title :
Coherent light emission from planar plasmonic metamaterials
Author :
Adamo, G. ; Ou, J.Y. ; So, J.K. ; Ren, Minzhen ; Plum, Eric ; Rogers, Edward T. F. ; MacDonald, K.F. ; Xu, Jie ; Zheludev, Nikolay I.
Author_Institution :
Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Abstract :
We show experimentally that highly localized excitations in planar plasmonic metamaterials drive spatially-coherent, directional, threshold-free light emission, providing a platform for the development of a new generation of nanoscale light sources.
Keywords :
light coherence; metamaterials; plasmonics; coherent light emission; highly localized excitations; nanoscale light sources; planar plasmonic metamaterials; threshold-free light emission; Absorption; Arrays; Metamaterials; Optical films; Optical reflection; Plasmons; Stimulated emission;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
