DocumentCode
2883269
Title
Gain assisted long range surface plasmon using multiple quantum wells
Author
Alam, M. ; Meier, J. ; Aitchison, J.S. ; Mojahedi, M.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON
fYear
2006
fDate
21-26 May 2006
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
2
Abstract
We propose a structure that compensates surface plasmon (SP) losses using quantum well (QW) gain medium. A finite height superstrate is used to achieve significant reduction in gain requirement for lossless SP propagation.
Keywords
semiconductor quantum wells; surface plasmons; finite height superstrate; quantum wells; surface plasmon; Attenuation; Dielectric constant; Dielectric losses; Optical attenuators; Optical buffering; Optical films; Optical losses; Plasmons; Propagation losses; Quantum computing; (240.6680) Surface Plasmon; (250.5980) Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on
Conference_Location
Long Beach, CA
Print_ISBN
978-1-55752-813-1
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-55752-813-1
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628960
Filename
4628960
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