Gain-assisted indented plasmonic waveguide for low-threshold nanolaser applications

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/21/10/107303

Abstract A subwavelength plasmonic indented waveguide with an active InGaAsP core is proposed. The characteristics of the gap plasmon mode and gain required for lossless propagation are investigated and analyzed by the finite element method. We numerically calculate the normalized mode areas and percentages of energy confined in InGaAsP and metal for plasmonic nanolaser applications. It is shown that the indentation of the sidewalls has an optimal value for which the lasing threshold gain is minimal. The structure could enable low-threshold subwavelength lasing and applications for optoelectronic integrated circuits.

Keywords: optical waveguide nanolasers surface plasmon gain

Received: 23 February 2012
Revised: 22 April 2012
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PACS:	73.20.Mf	(Collective excitations (including excitons, polarons, plasmons and other charge-density excitations))
	73.40.Sx	(Metal-semiconductor-metal structures)

Fund: Project supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) (Grant No. 2011CBA00608) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61036010, 60906027 60906028, and 61036010).

Corresponding Authors: Song Guo-Feng
E-mail: sgf@semi.ac.cn

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Liu Jie-Tao (刘杰涛), Xu Bin-Zong (许斌宗), Zhang Jing (张晶), Cai Li-Kang (蔡利康), Song Guo-Feng (宋国峰) Gain-assisted indented plasmonic waveguide for low-threshold nanolaser applications 2012 Chin. Phys. B 21 107303

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