Loss compensation by amplification in nanoplasmonic waveguides: Possibilities and limitations

Author

Thylen, Lars

Author_Institution

Lab. of Photonics & Microwave Eng., R. Inst. of Technol. (KTH), Kista, Sweden

fYear

2009

fDate

4-8 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

78

Lastpage

79

Abstract

The concomitant effects of the gain compensating loss process in a an optical waveguide are increased dissipation and signal to noise ratio degradation.This power dissipation is primarily due to the dissipative losses of the metal structures and Auger recombination in the quantum dots. The impact of amplifier mediated signal to noise ratio degradation and its effect on integration leads to a trade off between low power dissipation and signal to noise ratio. In this paper, the authors discussed loss compensation by amplification in nanoplasmonic waveguides.

Keywords

Auger effect; electron-hole recombination; nanophotonics; optical planar waveguides; plasmonics; quantum dots; Auger recombination; amplifier mediated signal; gain compensating loss process; loss compensation; metal structure; nanoplasmonic waveguide; optical waveguide; power dissipation; quantum dots; Degradation; Optical amplifiers; Optical losses; Optical noise; Optical waveguides; Power dissipation; Quantum dots; Radiative recombination; Signal to noise ratio; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings, 2009. LEOS '09. IEEE

Conference_Location

Belek-Antalya

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3680-4

Electronic_ISBN

1092-8081

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2009.5343461

Filename

5343461