• DocumentCode
    1770002
  • Title

    Ultrafast ZnO nanowire lasers: Nanoplasmonic acceleration of gain dynamics at the surface plasmon polariton frequency

  • Author

    Sidiropoulos, Themistoklis P. H. ; Geburt, Sebastian ; Roder, Robert ; Hess, Ortwin ; Maier, Stefan A. ; Ronning, Carsten ; Oulton, Rupert F.

  • Author_Institution
    Imperial Coll. London, London, UK
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    8-13 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We report optically pumped hybrid photonic - plasmonic ZnO nanowire lasers operating near the surface plasmon frequency. Here, we use the non-linearity of the laser process itself to reveal the internal ~1 ps dynamics of these plasmonic lasers.
  • Keywords
    II-VI semiconductors; high-speed optical techniques; nanophotonics; nanowires; nonlinear optics; optical pumping; polaritons; semiconductor lasers; surface plasmon resonance; wide band gap semiconductors; zinc compounds; ZnO; gain dynamics; internal dynamics; laser process; nanoplasmonic acceleration; nonlinearity; optical pumping; surface plasmon polariton frequency; ultrafast nanowire lasers; Laser excitation; Laser modes; Optical surface waves; Plasmons; Pump lasers; Surface emitting lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6988664