Lasing in metal-insulator-metal sub-wavelength plasmonic waveguides

Martin T. Hill; Milan Marell; Eunice S P Leong; Barry Smalbrugge; Youcai Zhu; Minghua Sun; Peter J. Van Veldhoven; Erik Jan Geluk; Fouad Karouta; Yok Siang Oei; Richard Nötzel; Cun-Zheng Ning; Meint K. Smit

doi:10.1364/OE.17.011107

Lasing in metal-insulator-metal sub-wavelength plasmonic waveguides

Martin T. Hill, Milan Marell, Eunice S P Leong, Barry Smalbrugge, Youcai Zhu, Minghua Sun, Peter J. Van Veldhoven, Erik Jan Geluk, Fouad Karouta, Yok Siang Oei, Richard Nötzel, Cun-Zheng Ning, Meint K. Smit

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Abstract

We demonstrate lasing in Metal-Insulator-Metal (MIM) waveguides filled with electrically pumped semiconductor cores, with core width dimensions below the diffraction limit. Furthermore these waveguides propagate a transverse magnetic (TM0) or so called gap plasmon mode [1-4]. Hence we show that losses in sub-wavelength MIM waveguides can be overcome to create small plasmon mode lasers at wavelengths near 1500nm. We also give results showing room temperature lasing in MIM waveguides, with approximately 310nm wide semiconductor cores which propagate a transverse electric mode.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	11107-11112
Number of pages	6
Journal	Optics Express
Volume	17
Issue number	13
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.17.011107
State	Published - Jun 22 2009

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