“…Alternative coupling to surface plasmons in metallic structures [ 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 ] suffers from high optical losses [ 32 ], which leads to both limiting the emission intensity of QDs and damaging the potential devices by heating them. Interaction of QDs with various semiconductor [ 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 ] and plasmonic waveguides [ 39 , 40 ] also allows one to control their photoluminescence (PL) by coupling to either propagating waveguide modes or surface plasmon–polariton modes. However, these approaches suffer the same limitations as described above.…”