Title :
High Quality 3D Virtual Nanocavity by Fringing Near-Fields of a Plasmonic Cylinder
Author :
Arbel, David ; Feigenbaum, Eyal ; Orenstein, Meir
Author_Institution :
Technion - Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa
Abstract :
A 50 nm diameter gold cylinder loaded on a semiconductor surface creates sub-wavelength field confinement in 3D. The virtual nano-cavity exhibits 180 nm modal volume with Q-factor of few hundreds, suitable for realizing a semiconductor based nano-laser.
Keywords :
Q-factor; finite difference time-domain analysis; gold; laser cavity resonators; nanotechnology; semiconductor lasers; surface plasmons; Au; FDTD simulation; Q-factor; gold cylinder; high quality 3D virtual nanocavity; plasmonic cylinder; semiconductor based nanolaser; semiconductor surface; size 50 nm; sub-wavelength field confinement; Engine cylinders; Gold; Integrated optics; Nanoscale devices; Optical resonators; Optical surface waves; Plasmons; Polarization; Q factor; Wire;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007. CLEO 2007. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-834-6
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2007.4453140
