2009 APS March Meeting
Volume 54, Number 1
Monday–Friday, March 16–20, 2009;
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Session Q5: Plasmonics in Future Electronics
11:15 AM–2:15 PM,
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Room: 401/402
Sponsoring
Unit:
FIAP
Chair: Boris Luk`yanchuk, Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Abstract ID: BAPS.2009.MAR.Q5.2
Abstract: Q5.00002 : Ultrafast and Quantum Nanoplasmonics: SPASER and Control
11:51 AM–12:27 PM
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Abstract
Author:
Mark I. Stockman
(Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University)
Nanoplasmonics is presently experiencing a period of unprecedented growth
and has numerous applications. These include sensing and detection of minute
amount of chemical and biological objects for biomedicine and defense [1],
near-field scanning optical microscopy [2], immunological tests, labels for
biomedical research, nanoantennas for efficient coupling of light to
semiconductor devices, etc. Nanoplasmonics still greatly needs active
elements to generate optical energy on the nanoscale and serve as
amplifiers.
We have proposed a quantum nanoplasmonic generator and amplifier of the
local optical fields, SPASER [surface plasmon amplification by stimulated
emission (of radiation)]. [3-5]. A SPASER is analogous to laser except that
light (photons) is replaced by local optical fields (surface plasmons). This
is responsible for the principal difference: laser cavity must support
photonic modes and its size is on order or much greater than the optical
wavelength, cf. [6]. In contrast, the surface plasmons in the spaser are
purely electric oscillations whose localization size is nanometric. SPASER
will transform nanoplasmonics the same way as the laser transformed optics.
In particular nanoplasmonic processors working at THz operation rates will
become possible.
Another important area is the active control of nanoplasmonic phenomena. One
approach to it is coherent control, where a shaped optical pulse
dynamically, on the femtosecond scale controls the nanoscale distribution of
local fields [7-12]. \newline
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\textbf{References \newline
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[2] L. Novotny, and B. Hecht, \textit{Principles of nano-optics }(Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New
York, 2006). \newline
[3] D. J. Bergman, and M. I. Stockman, Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{90}, 027402
(2003). \newline
[4] K. Li\textit{ et al.}, Phys. Rev. B \textbf{71}, 115409 (2005). \newline
[5] M. I. Stockman, Nature Photonics \textbf{2}, 327 (2008). \newline
[6] M. T. Hill\textit{ et al.}, Nature Photonics \textbf{1}, 589 (2007). \newline
[7] M. I. Stockman, S. V. Faleev, and D. J. Bergman, Phys. Rev. Lett.
\textbf{88}, 67402 (2002). \newline
[8] M. I. Stockman, D. J. Bergman, and T. Kobayashi, Phys. Rev. B
\textbf{69}, 054202 (2004). \newline
[9] M. I. Stockman, and P. Hewageegana, Nano Lett. \textbf{5}, 2325 (2005).
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[10] M. Durach\textit{ et al.}, Nano Lett. \textbf{7}, 3145 (2007). \newline
[11] M. I. Stockman, and P. Hewageegana, Appl. Phys. A \textbf{89}, 247
(2007). \newline
[12] X. Li, and M. I. Stockman, Phys. Rev. B \textbf{77}, 195109 (2008).
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