Title :
Nonlinear MIM nanoplasmonic waveguide based on electron tunneling for ultrafast optical pulse rectification
Author :
Lei, Xiaoqin ; Van, Vien
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Abstract :
We investigated nonlinear pulse propagation in Metal-Insulator-Metal nanoplasmonic waveguides in the presence of electron tunneling across the gap layer. The device is shown to be capable of rectifying ultrafast pulses of less than 100fs duration.
Keywords :
MIM devices; optical pulse generation; optical waveguides; plasmonics; surface plasmons; tunnelling; electron tunneling; gap layer; metal-insulator-metal nanoplasmonic waveguides; nonlinear MIM nanoplasmonic waveguide; nonlinear pulse propagation; ultrafast optical pulse rectification; Insulators; Optical pulses; Optical waveguides; Plasmons; Tunneling; Waveguide discontinuities;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Burlingame, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0731-5
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2012.6359312
