Title :
Coupling molecular photoluminescence into deep sub-wavelength plasmon waveguides
Author :
Pholchai, Nitipat ; Sorger, Volker J. ; Cubukcu, Ertugul ; Oulton, Rupert F. ; Kolchin, Pavel ; Borschel, C. ; Gnauck, M. ; Ronning, C. ; Zhang, Xiang
Author_Institution :
NSF Nanoscale Sci. & Eng. Centre, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate Purcell enhancement of spontaneous decay rate up to 60 times and luminescence intensity up to five-fold from dye molecules strongly coupled to a non-resonant deep-subwavelength metal-dielectric hybrid plasmon waveguide.
Keywords :
optical waveguides; photoluminescence; plasmonics; Purcell enhancement; coupling molecular photoluminescence; dye molecules; luminescence intensity; nonresonant deep-subwavelength metal-dielectric hybrid plasmon waveguide; spontaneous decay rate; Couplings; Optical device fabrication; Optical diffraction; Optical waveguides; Plasmons; Stimulated emission;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
