Demonstration of quadrature squeezed surface-plasmons in a gold waveguide

Author

Huck, Alexander ; Smolka, Stephan ; Krivitsky, Leonid ; Lodahl, Peter ; Sørensen, Anders S. ; Boltasseva, Alexandra ; Andersen, Ulrik L.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Tech. Univ. of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

fYear

2009

fDate

14-19 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

In this contribution we present an experiment demonstrating the generation of non-classical SPPs by exciting them with a squeezed optical light field generated using a bow-tie shaped optical parametric oscillator operating below threshold. Free space optics and end-fire coupling are used for the excitation of long-range SPPs (LR-SPPs) on gold stripes embedded in lossless transparent polymer BCB.

Keywords

gold; optical parametric oscillators; optical squeezing; optical waveguides; surface plasmons; Au; bow-tie shape; free space optics; gold waveguide; optical parametric oscillator; quadrature squeezed; squeezed optical light field; surface plasmons; transparent polymer BCB; Gold; Nonlinear optics; Optical noise; Optical polymers; Optical surface waves; Optical waveguides; Phase noise; Quantum entanglement; Surface waves; Transmission line matrix methods;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics 2009 and the European Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEO Europe - EQEC 2009. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4079-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4080-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2009.5191638

Filename

5191638