Title :
Room temperature sub-wavelength plasmon laser
Author :
Ma, R.-M. ; Oulton, R.F. ; Sorger, V.J. ; Zhang, X.
Author_Institution :
NSF Center for Scalable & Integrated Nanomanufacturing, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Abstract :
We report plasmon lasers with optical confinement of 1/20th wavelength operating at room temperature. The strong confinement and efficient feedback arising from plasmonic total internal reflection enhance the spontaneous emission rate up to 20 times.
Keywords :
Biomedical optical imaging; Laser feedback; Laser modes; Laser transitions; Optical feedback; Optical scattering; Plasmons; Pump lasers; Spontaneous emission; Temperature;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
