Integrated plasmonic circuitry on a vertical-cavity surface-emitting semiconductor laser platform
dc.contributor.author | McPolin, Cillian P. T. | |
dc.contributor.author | Bouillard, Jean-Sebastien | |
dc.contributor.author | Vilain, Sebastien | |
dc.contributor.author | Krasavin, Alexey V. | |
dc.contributor.author | Dickson, Wayne | |
dc.contributor.author | O'Connor, Daniel | |
dc.contributor.author | Wurtz, Gregory A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Justice, John | |
dc.contributor.author | Corbett, Brian M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Zayats, Anatoly V. | |
dc.contributor.funder | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council | en |
dc.contributor.funder | Royal Society | en |
dc.contributor.funder | Wolfson Foundation | en |
dc.contributor.funder | Seagate Technology, United States | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-06-28T14:36:35Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-06-28T14:36:35Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-08-05 | |
dc.date.updated | 2017-06-28T14:15:55Z | |
dc.description.abstract | Integrated plasmonic sources and detectors are imperative in the practical development of plasmonic circuitry for bio- and chemical sensing, nanoscale optical information processing, as well as transducers for high-density optical data storage. Here we show that vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) can be employed as an on-chip, electrically pumped source or detector of plasmonic signals, when operated in forward or reverse bias, respectively. To this end, we experimentally demonstrate surface plasmon polariton excitation, waveguiding, frequency conversion and detection on a VCSEL-based plasmonic platform. The coupling efficiency of the VCSEL emission to waveguided surface plasmon polariton modes has been optimized using asymmetric plasmonic nanostructures. The plasmonic VCSEL platform validated here is a viable solution for practical realizations of plasmonic functionalities for various applications, such as those requiring sub-wavelength field confinement, refractive index sensitivity or optical near-field transduction with electrically driven sources, thus enabling the realization of on-chip optical communication and lab-on-a-chip devices. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | Seagate Technology United States | en |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.description.version | Published Version | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
dc.identifier.citation | McPolin, C. P. T., Bouillard, J.-S., Vilain, S., Krasavin, A. V., Dickson, W., O’Connor, D., Wurtz, G. A., Justice, J., Corbett, B. and Zayats, A. V. (2016) 'Integrated plasmonic circuitry on a vertical-cavity surface-emitting semiconductor laser platform', Nature Communications, 7, 12409. doi:10.1038/ncomms12409 | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1038/ncomms12409 | |
dc.identifier.endpage | 12409-8 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 2041-1723 | |
dc.identifier.journaltitle | Nature Communications | en |
dc.identifier.startpage | 12409-1 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10468/4201 | |
dc.identifier.volume | 7 | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Nature Publishing Group | en |
dc.relation.project | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7::SP3::PEOPLE/304179/EU/Ultrafast Dynamics, Energy Exchanges, and Non-linear Optical Properties of Resonant Nanostructures/UDENOP | en |
dc.rights | © The Authors 2016. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en |
dc.subject | Integrated optics | en |
dc.subject | Nanophotonics and plasmonics | en |
dc.subject | Semiconductor lasers | en |
dc.title | Integrated plasmonic circuitry on a vertical-cavity surface-emitting semiconductor laser platform | en |
dc.type | Article (peer-reviewed) | en |