All-optical modulation by plasmonic excitation of CdSe quantum dots

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A single-photon transistor using nanoscale surface plasmons (2007, background): “Although ideas for developing plasmonic analogues of electronic devices by combining surface plasmons with electronics are already being explore”
All-Optical Plasmonic Switches Based on Coupled Nano-disk Cavity Structures Containing Nonlinear Material (2011, methodology): “Recently, some methods for active plasmonic devices have been proposed, such as thermo-optic mechanism [15], absorption activation by quantum dots [16], electro-optic mechanism [17, 18], adoption of photo-chromic molecules [19], and exploration of nonlinear effects [20, 21].”
Near-field electrical detection of optical plasmons and single plasmon sources (2009, background): “can localize light below the diffraction limit [1-8].”
A Review of Ultrahigh Efficiency III-V Semiconductor Compound Solar Cells: Multijunction Tandem, Lower Dimensional, Photonic Up/Down Conversion and Plasmonic Nanometallic Structures (2009, methodology): “By placing a metallic layer at the bottom of a photovoltaic layer as schematically depicted in Figure 17b, incident light can couple into surface plasmons propagating at the semiconductor/metal interface via some subwavelength-size feature such as nanoscale grooves [108,122–124].”