Remote excitation and remote detection of a single quantum dot using propagating surface plasmons on silver nanowire

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/23/9/097302

Abstract Using propagating surface plasmons (SPs) on a silver nanowire (NW), we demonstrate that a focused laser light at the end of the silver NW can excite a single quantum dot (QD) microns away from the excitation spot. The QD-NW interaction allows the excited QD convert part of its energy into propagating SPs, which then can be detected at remote sites. Simultaneous multi-QD remote excitation and remote detection can also be realized. Furthermore, the tight confinement of the propagating SPs around the NW surface enables the selective excitation of QDs very close in space, which cannot be realized under the conventional excitation condition. This remote excitation and remote detection approach may find applications in optical imaging and the sensing of chemical and biological systems.

Keywords: surface plasmons silver nanowire quantum dot fluorescence

Received: 25 April 2014
Revised: 20 May 2014
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PACS:	73.20.Mf	(Collective excitations (including excitons, polarons, plasmons and other charge-density excitations))
	78.67.Hc	(Quantum dots)
	78.67.Uh	(Nanowires)

Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11374012, 11134013, 11227407, and 61210017), the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Grant No. 2012YQ12006005), and the Knowledge Innovation Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. KJCX2-EW-W04).

Corresponding Authors: Wei Hong
E-mail: weihong@iphy.ac.cn

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Li Qiang (李强), Wei Hong (魏红), Xu Hong-Xing (徐红星) Remote excitation and remote detection of a single quantum dot using propagating surface plasmons on silver nanowire 2014 Chin. Phys. B 23 097302

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