Strong coupling of single emitters to surface plasmons
By Darrick E. Chang, Anders Søndberg Sørensen, P. Hemmer, Mikhail D. Lukin. 2006
297 citations recorded by the source corpus.
We propose a method that enables strong, coherent coupling between individual optical emitters and electromagnetic excitations in conducting nanostructures. The excitations are optical plasmons that can be localized to subwavelength dimensions. Under realistic conditions, the tight confinement causes optical emission to be almost entirely directed into the propagating plasmon modes via a mechanism analogous to cavity quantum electrodynamics. We first illustrate this result for the case of a nanowire, before considering the optimized geometry of a nanotip. We describe an application of this technique involving efficient single-photon generation on demand, in which the plasmons are efficiently outcoupled to a dielectric waveguide. Finally, we analyze the effects of increased scattering due to surface roughness on these nanostructures.
Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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In Biomedical Engineering
- Darrick E. Chang
- E. Demler
- Mikhail D. Lukin
- Anders Søndberg Sørensen
- Franco Nori
- F H L Koppens
- K. Bliokh
In Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Darrick E. Chang
- E. Demler
- Mikhail D. Lukin
- Anders Søndberg Sørensen
- Franco Nori
- Yu-xi Liu
- Adam Miranowicz
Citations in the corpus
- A single-photon transistor using nanoscale surface plasmons (2007, background): “Much like a single-mode fibre, the surface-plasmon modes of a conducting nanowire constitute a one-dimensional single-mode continuum that can be indexed by the wavevectors k along the direction of propagatio”
- Microwave photonics with superconducting quantum circuits (2017, background): “Theoretical studies have shown that quantum emitters can couple efficiently to waveguides for plasmons made from nanowires [508], graphene [509, 510], and carbon nan-”
- Near-field electrical detection of optical plasmons and single plasmon sources (2009, background): “30-100 nm away) to be captured as SP modes [20-22].”