Title :
Plasmonic metamaterials coupled to single InGaAs-Quantum-well gain
Author :
Meinzer, Nina ; Ruther, Matthias ; Linden, Stefan ; Soukoulis, Costas M. ; Khitrova, Galina ; Hendrickson, Joshua ; Olitzky, Joshua D. ; Gibbs, Hyatt M. ; Wegener, Martin
Author_Institution :
Karlsruhe Inst. of Technol. (KIT), Inst. fur Nanotechnol., Karlsruhe, Germany
Abstract :
We present low-temperature femtosecond-pump-probe measurements on arrays of split ring resonators above a single InGaAs-quantum well in which we study the coupling mechanism between the metamaterial and gain medium upon variation of their separation.
Keywords :
III-V semiconductors; gallium arsenide; high-speed optical techniques; indium compounds; metamaterials; optical couplers; optical materials; optical resonators; plasmonics; semiconductor quantum wells; silver; Ag-InGaAs; coupling mechanism; low temperature femtosecond pump probe measurements; plasmonic metamaterials; single quantum well gain; split ring resonator arrays; Couplings; Metamaterials; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Optical ring resonators; Probes; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
