Surface plasmon polariton laser based on a metallic trench Fabry-Perot resonator

Zhu, Wenqi; Xu, Ting; Wang, Haozhu; Zhang, Cheng; Deotare, Parag B.; Agrawal, Amit; Lezec, Henri J.

doi:10.1126/sciadv.1700909

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“…A similar SPP spaser has also been demonstrated with quantum-dot gain media 50 . The great progress achieved over the last decade has led to rapid evolution from the very preliminary proof-of-concept demonstrations to a great variety of plasmonic nanolaser designs 32,46,[51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63] (Fig. 2), including more realistic devices aimed at specific applications.…”

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“…2), including more realistic devices aimed at specific applications. For example, their intrinsic capabilities suggest their potential for application in optical interconnects 8,41,[64][65][66][67][68][69][70] , near-field spectroscopy and sensing 42,44,53,71,72 , optical probing for biological systems 38,73 , and far-field beam synthesis through near-field a Nanolaser based on a metal-insulator-semiconductor-insulator-metal plasmonic gap mode, where vertical confinement was achieved by means of a double heterostructure 34 . b Plasmonic nanolaser based on a twodimensionally confined nanowire plasmonic mode 35 .…”

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Ten years of spasers and plasmonic nanolasers

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Ten years ago, three teams experimentally demonstrated the first spasers, or plasmonic nanolasers, after the spaser concept was first proposed theoretically in 2003. An overview of the significant progress achieved over the last 10 years is presented here, together with the original context of and motivations for this research. After a general introduction, we first summarize the fundamental properties of spasers and discuss the major motivations that led to the first demonstrations of spasers and nanolasers. This is followed by an overview of crucial technological progress, including lasing threshold reduction, dynamic modulation, room-temperature operation, electrical injection, the control and improvement of spasers, the array operation of spasers, and selected applications of single-particle spasers. Research prospects are presented in relation to several directions of development, including further miniaturization, the relationship with Bose-Einstein condensation, novel spaser-based interconnects, and other features of spasers and plasmonic lasers that have yet to be realized or challenges that are still to be overcome.

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“…13 ). However, based on recent progress in using the template-stripping approach to create ultra-smooth Ag films with typical values of L SPP ranging from 30 to 80 µm 58 , 59 , utilizing template-stripped Ag-films would be one very straightforward approach to enhance the performance of these devices. The template-stripping approach also directly lends itself towards fabricating the inverse groove structures onto reusable Si templates where groove-depth along with its width and location can be used as a free-parameter to further improve the flexibility in device-design.…”

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Aperiodic nanoplasmonic devices for directional colour filtering and sensing

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Exploiting the wave-nature of light in its simplest form, periodic architectures have enabled a panoply of tunable optical devices with the ability to perform useful functions such as filtering, spectroscopy and multiplexing. Here, we remove the constraint of structural periodicity to enhance, simultaneously, the performance and functionality of passive plasmonic devices operating at optical frequencies. By using a physically-intuitive, first-order interference model of plasmon-light interactions, we demonstrate a simple and efficient route towards designing devices with flexible, multi-spectral optical response, fundamentally not achievable using periodic architectures. Leveraging this approach, we experimentally implement ultra-compact directional light-filters and colour-sorters exhibiting angle- or spectrally-tunable optical responses with high contrast, and low spectral or spatial crosstalk. Expanding the potential of aperiodic systems to implement tailored spectral and angular responses, these results hint at promising applications in solar-energy harvesting, optical signal multiplexing and integrated sensing.

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“…These plasmonic cavity designs include metallic co-axial structures, 71,81 metallic nanopan structures, 80 metallic structures combined with VCSELs, metallic trench FP cavity, and metalgrating DFB structures. 74,75 Although plasmonic laser operation under optical pumping dominates the research literature, electrical injection devices 54,63,68,77,83,84 have been studied from the very beginning, based on semiconductor wafer structures that are more compatible with the standard III-V fabrication technologies. Room temperature operation of metallic cavity lasers under electrical injection has also been demonstrated, 77,83 indicating potential applicability of such lasers for practical applications.…”

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Semiconductor nanolasers and the size-energy-efficiency challenge: a review

2019

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Semiconductor lasers, an important subfield of semiconductor photonics, have fundamentally changed many aspects of our lives and enabled many technologies since their creation in the 1960s. As in other semiconductor-based fields, such as microelectronics, miniaturization has been a constant theme, with nanolasers being an important frontier of research over the last decade. We review the progress, existing issues, and future prospects of nanolasers, especially in relation to their potential application in chip-scale optical interconnects. One of the important challenges in this application is minimizing the size and energy consumption of nanolasers. We begin with the application background of this challenge and then compare basic features of various semiconductor lasers. We present existing issues with nanolasers and discuss potential solutions to meet the size and energy-efficiency challenge. Our discussions cover a broad range of miniaturized lasers, including plasmonic nanolasers and lasers with two-dimensional monolayer gain materials, with focus on near-infrared wavelengths.

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Surface plasmon polariton laser based on a metallic trench Fabry-Perot resonator

Abstract: A metallic trench Fabry-Perot resonator achieves room temperature lasing of surface plasmons with a record-narrow linewidth.

Cited by 83 publications

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Ten years of spasers and plasmonic nanolasers

Ten years of spasers and plasmonic nanolasers

Aperiodic nanoplasmonic devices for directional colour filtering and sensing

Semiconductor nanolasers and the size-energy-efficiency challenge: a review

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