Title :
Etchless optical cavity using metal nanowires on dielectric-metal slab waveguide
Author :
Youngho Jung ; Kyungmook Kwon ; Kyoungsik Yu
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea
Abstract :
We demonstrate that randomly distributed metallic nanowires on the dielectric-metal slab waveguides can form Fabry-Perot-type optical cavities and achieve sufficient quality factors for lasing for the transverse electric waveguide mode.
Keywords :
Fabry-Perot resonators; Q-factor; finite difference time-domain analysis; nanophotonics; nanowires; optical resonators; optical waveguides; slabs; Fabry-Perot-type optical cavities; dielectric-metal slab waveguide; optical cavity; quality factors; randomly distributed metallic nanowires; transverse electric waveguide mode; Cavity resonators; Metals; Nanowires; Optical resonators; Optical waveguides; Reflectivity; Slabs;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series, 2013 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Waikoloa, HI
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5059-4
DOI :
10.1109/PHOSST.2013.6614490
