All-plasmonic modulation via stimulated emission of copropagating surface plasmon polaritons on a substrate with gain

Alexey V. Krasavin; Thanh Phong Vo; Wayne Dickson; Pádraig M. Bolger; Anatoly V. Zayats

doi:10.1021/nl200255t

All-plasmonic modulation via stimulated emission of copropagating surface plasmon polaritons on a substrate with gain

Alexey V. Krasavin, Thanh Phong Vo, Wayne Dickson, Pádraig M. Bolger, Anatoly V. Zayats

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Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate suppressed absorption and stimulated emission of surface plasmon polaritons (SPP) leading to all-plasmonic modulation of an SPP signal propagating at the interface between a metal and a gain medium; these observations are supported by the developed theory. The use of copropagating signal and control waves can provide more than 10 times more efficient SPP stimulated emission compared to out-of-plane pumping and opens up the possibility to realize integratable plasmonic components for active nanophotonic circuitry.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2231-2235
Number of pages	5
Journal	Nano Letters
Volume	11
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/nl200255t
Publication status	Published - 8 Jun 2011

Keywords

plasmonic waveguides
Plasmonics
surface plasmon polariton amplification

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