Title :
Active and passive composite metal-dielectric nanophotonic devices
Author :
Fainman, Y. ; Bondarenko, O. ; Simic, A. ; Mizrahi, A. ; Lomakin, V. ; Gu, Q. ; Lee, J. ; Khajavikhan, M. ; Slutsky, B. ; Nezhad, M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Abstract :
We explore metallo-dielectric composite nanostructures for localization and resonant excitation of optical fields and investigate design, fabrication and testing of nanolasers. Integration with silicon photonics material platform is demonstrated.
Keywords :
III-V semiconductors; dielectric materials; elemental semiconductors; gallium arsenide; indium compounds; integrated optics; integrated optoelectronics; nanocomposites; nanophotonics; optical design techniques; optical fabrication; optical testing; quantum well lasers; resonance; silicon; InGaAsP-InP; Si; active composite metal-dielectric nanophotonic devices; nanolaser design; nanolaser fabrication; nanolaser testing; optical field localization; optical field resonant excitation; passive composite metal-dielectric nanophotonic devices; silicon photonics; Laser modes; Metals; Nanoscale devices; Optical diffraction; Optical filters; Optical resonators; Photonics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
