Title :
Ultrafast ZnO nanowire lasers: Nanoplasmonic acceleration of gain dynamics at the surface plasmon polariton frequency
Author :
Sidiropoulos, Themistoklis P. H. ; Geburt, Sebastian ; Roder, Robert ; Hess, Ortwin ; Maier, Stefan A. ; Ronning, Carsten ; Oulton, Rupert F.
Author_Institution :
Imperial Coll. London, London, UK
Abstract :
We report optically pumped hybrid photonic - plasmonic ZnO nanowire lasers operating near the surface plasmon frequency. Here, we use the non-linearity of the laser process itself to reveal the internal ~1 ps dynamics of these plasmonic lasers.
Keywords :
II-VI semiconductors; high-speed optical techniques; nanophotonics; nanowires; nonlinear optics; optical pumping; polaritons; semiconductor lasers; surface plasmon resonance; wide band gap semiconductors; zinc compounds; ZnO; gain dynamics; internal dynamics; laser process; nanoplasmonic acceleration; nonlinearity; optical pumping; surface plasmon polariton frequency; ultrafast nanowire lasers; Laser excitation; Laser modes; Optical surface waves; Plasmons; Pump lasers; Surface emitting lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
