Title :
Coupling of light from microdisk lasers to nano-antennas with nano-tapers
Author :
Li, Ziyuan ; Hattori, Haroldo T. ; Karouta, Fouad ; Tian, Jie ; Parkinson, Patrick ; Fu, Lan ; Tan, Hark Hoe ; Jagadish, Chennupati
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Eng. & Inf. Technol., Univ. of New South Wales, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Abstract :
Optical dipole nano-antennas are passive devices needing light from external sources. In this work, highly efficient coupling of light from microdisk lasers into plasmonic nano-antennas by using nano-tapers is proposed.
Keywords :
microdisc lasers; nanophotonics; light coupling; microdisk lasers; nano-tapers; optical dipole nano-antennas; passive devices; plasmonic nano-antennas; Couplings; Nanobioscience; Nanoscale devices; Optical device fabrication; Optical imaging; Optical waveguides; Waveguide lasers; Integrated Optics; Semiconductor lasers; Surface plasmons;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Burlingame, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0731-5
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2012.6359280
