• DocumentCode
    690177
  • Title

    Optically defined plasmonic waveguides in crystalline semiconductors at optical frequencies

  • Author

    Wong, Herman M. K. ; Helmy, Amr S.

  • Author_Institution
    Edward S. Rogers Sr. Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    9-14 June 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    A nanoscale all-semiconductor waveguide designed to support a plasmonic gap mode (PGM) at high optical excitation intensity is introduced. The PGM properties such as mode confinement and dispersion are widely tunable through varying the excitation intensity.
  • Keywords
    nanophotonics; optical design techniques; optical dispersion; optical waveguides; plasmonics; PGM; crystalline semiconductors; high optical excitation intensity; mode confinement; nanoscale all-semiconductor waveguide; optical frequencies; optically defined plasmonic waveguides; plasmonic gap mode; widely tunable dispersion; Gallium arsenide; Metals; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Optical waveguides; Plasmons; Semiconductor waveguides;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6834570