Title :
Gain assisted long range surface plasmon using multiple quantum wells
Author :
Alam, M. ; Meier, J. ; Aitchison, J.S. ; Mojahedi, M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON
Abstract :
We propose a structure that compensates surface plasmon (SP) losses using quantum well (QW) gain medium. A finite height superstrate is used to achieve significant reduction in gain requirement for lossless SP propagation.
Keywords :
semiconductor quantum wells; surface plasmons; finite height superstrate; quantum wells; surface plasmon; Attenuation; Dielectric constant; Dielectric losses; Optical attenuators; Optical buffering; Optical films; Optical losses; Plasmons; Propagation losses; Quantum computing; (240.6680) Surface Plasmon; (250.5980) Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Long Beach, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-813-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-813-1
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628960
