Surface plasmon amplification and active nonreciprocal gratings

Elham Karami Keshmarzi; R. Niall Tait; Pierre Berini

doi:10.1117/12.2084710

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12 March 2015 Surface plasmon amplification and active nonreciprocal gratings

Elham Karami Keshmarzi, R. Niall Tait, Pierre Berini

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Proceedings Volume 9352, Synthesis and Photonics of Nanoscale Materials XII; 93520B (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2084710
Event: SPIE LASE, 2015, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

In this paper, we review our recent work on active plasmonic structures composed of optically pumped dye molecules infiltrated in a polymer host as the cladding of long-range surface plasmon polariton (LRSPP) structures. In particular, concepts for distributed Bragg and distributed feedback (DBR/DFB) lasers, and a spatially non-reciprocal Bragg grating (NRBG) are reviewed. The LRSPP Bragg grating is a fundamental element in these devices which is created by stepping the width of a metal stripe to produce modulation of refractive index. The gain medium in all of these active devices is assumed to be a thin film (~1μm) of polymer (poly (methyl methacrylate)) doped with organic laser dye molecules IR- 140. The gain medium is assumed pumped optically through the top of the devices via 10 ns laser pulses at 810 nm with 500 kW/cm² power intensity to enable stimulated emission at 880 nm. The maximum material gain coefficient of this medium was measured independently as 68 cm^-1.

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Elham Karami Keshmarzi, R. Niall Tait, and Pierre Berini "Surface plasmon amplification and active nonreciprocal gratings", Proc. SPIE 9352, Synthesis and Photonics of Nanoscale Materials XII, 93520B (12 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2084710

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