Engineering Directionality in Quantum Dot Shell Lasing Using Plasmonic Lattices

Guan, Jun; Sagar, Laxmi Kishore; Li, Ran; Wang, Danqing; Bappi, Golam; Watkins, Nicolas E.; Bourgeois, M.; Levina, Larissa; Fan, Fengjia; Hoogland, Sjoerd; Voznyy, Oleksandr; Pina, João M.; Schaller, Richard D.; Schatz, George C.; Sargent, Edward H.; Odom, Teri W.

doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b05342

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“…Low-symmetry lattice geometries with rhombohedral unit cells also exploited the spasing mechanism, where changing the pump polarization resulted in different populations of molecules within the same electromagnetic hotspots contributing to lasing action and at very different wavelengths. Closing the loop on the original spaser design, we found that colloidal semiconductor quantum dots combined with plasmonic nanoparticle lattices could produce lasing action with both radially and azimuthally polarized light and with an emission beam at any desired angle. , …”

Section: Spasersmentioning

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Mark Stockman: Evangelist for Plasmonics

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ACS Photonics

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Mark Stockman was a founding member and evangelist for the plasmonics field for most of his creative life. He never sought recognition, but fame came to him in a different way. He will be dearly remembered by colleagues and friends as one of the most influential and creative contributors to the science of light from our generation.■ A SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF PROFESSOR MARK STOCKMAN Mark Stockman was born on the 21st of July 1947 in Kharkov, a major cultural, scientific, educational, and industrial center in the mainly Russian-speaking northern Ukraine, a part of the Soviet Union at that point in time. His father, Ilya Stockman, was a mining engineer by training, who fought in World War II and became a highly decorated enlisted officer. After the war, Ilya Stockman embraced an academic career and eventually became a Professor at the Dnepropetrovsk Higher Mining School. He was from a Cantonist family descended from Jewish conscripts to the Russian Imperial army, who were educated in special "canton schools" for future military service.Mark was an avid reader at school, and it was the undergraduate textbook on applied mathematics by Yakov Zeldovich, the famous theoretical physicist, who played a crucial role in the development of the Soviet Union's nuclear bomb project that turned his attention to physics in a serious way.Following successful participation in the national school physics competition, Mark was accepted into a highly selective institution for gifted children in Kiev known as the Republican Specialized Physics and Mathematics Boarding School. The school was established by the father of Soviet cybernetics Victor Glushkov. Mark left his family in Dnepropetrovsk and moved to Kiev as a boarding student. Upon graduating from the school, he successfully applied to the Physics Department of Kiev State University, aided by his reputation as a top student and links between the school and university academics: for a Jewish boy with no family connections, to enter this prestigious university in the Ukrainian capital was a formidable challenge in the Soviet Union. However, after his second year, feeling uncomfortable at the University in Kiev, Mark decided to leave the blessed city for Novosibirsk State University far away in Siberia where a more cosmopolitan atmosphere prevailed at that time. He studied for a diploma in the Institute of Nuclear Physics where after graduation he became a researcher registered as a Ph.D. student. He defended a dissertation on collective phenomena in nuclei under the supervision of Russian theoretical physicists Spartak Belyaev and Vladimir Zelelevinsky. While a Ph.D. candidate, Mark met and married Branislava Mezger, a junior research scientist in biomedicine, and in 1978 they had a son, Dmitry. After a few years in the Institute of Nuclear Physics, Mark became disillusioned with nuclear physics, where research projects involved large groups and implied very long experimental cycles. He moved to the neighboring Institute of Automation and Electrometry in Novosibirsk to work on the fundam...

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Section: Spasersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mark Stockman: Evangelist for Plasmonics

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Atwater²,

Baumberg³

et al. 2021

ACS Photonics

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“…[60] More recently, plasmonic cavities and lasers based on an array of nanostructures have been demonstrated. [61][62][63][64] For example, plasmonic nanoparticle arrays achieved a 200-fold enhancement of the spontaneous emission rate because of their large local density of states. [61] The upconverting laser in the plasmonic nanoarray coated with lanthanide-based upconverting nanoparticles was operated to provide directional, stable, CW output at visible frequencies under near-infrared pumping.…”

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Recent Progress in Nanolaser Technology

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Nanolasers are key elements in the implementation of optical integrated circuits owing to their low lasing thresholds, high energy efficiencies, and high modulation speeds. With the development of semiconductor wafer growth and nanofabrication techniques, various types of wavelength-scale and subwavelength-scale nanolasers have been proposed. For example, photonic crystal lasers and plasmonic lasers based on the feedback mechanisms of the photonic bandgap and surface plasmon polaritons, respectively, have been successfully demonstrated. More recently, nanolasers employing new mechanisms of light confinement, including parity-time symmetry lasers, photonic topological insulator lasers, and bound states in the continuum lasers, have been developed. Here, the operational mechanisms, optical characterizations, and practical applications of these nanolasers based on recent research results are outlined. Their scientific and engineering challenges are also discussed.

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“…Integrating gain media with nanoparticle lattices can result in nanoscale lasing, − where the high local density of optical states at the band edges provides optical feedback and the corresponding in-plane wavevectors of the band-edge states determine the emission angles. Lasing action can be used as an effective diagnostic tool to visualize the high-symmetry points of plasmonic lattices. − …”

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Identification of Brillouin Zones by In-Plane Lasing from Light-Cone Surface Lattice Resonances

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Bourgeois

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ACS Nano

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Because of translational symmetry, electromagnetic fields confined within 2D periodic optical structures can be represented within the first Brillouin zone (BZ). In contrast, the wavevectors of scattered electromagnetic fields outside the lattice are constrained by the 3D light cone, the free-photon dispersion in the surrounding medium. Here, we report that light-cone surface lattice resonances (SLRs) from plasmonic nanoparticle lattices can be used to observe the radiated electromagnetic fields from extended BZ edges. Our coupled dipole radiation theory reveals how lattice geometry and induced surface plasmon dipole orientation affect angular distributions of the radiated fields. Using dye molecules as local dipole emitters to excite the light-cone SLR modes, we experimentally identified high-order BZ edges by directional, in-plane lasing emission. These results provide insight into nanolaser architectures that can emit at multiple wavelengths and in-plane directions simply by rotating the nanocavity lattice.

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Engineering Directionality in Quantum Dot Shell Lasing Using Plasmonic Lattices

Cited by 58 publications

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Mark Stockman: Evangelist for Plasmonics

Mark Stockman: Evangelist for Plasmonics

Recent Progress in Nanolaser Technology

Identification of Brillouin Zones by In-Plane Lasing from Light-Cone Surface Lattice Resonances

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