Quantum Statistics of Surface Plasmon Polaritons in Metallic Stripe Waveguides

被引：80

作者：

Di Martino, Giuliana ^{[1
]}

Sonnefraud, Yannick ^{[1
]}

Kena-Cohen, Stephane ^{[1
]}

Tame, Mark ^{[2
]}

Oezdemir, Sahin K. ^{[3
]}

Kim, M. S. ^{[2
]}

Maier, Stefan A. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ London Imperial Coll Sci Technol & Med, Expt Solid State Grp, London SW7 2AZ, England

[2] Univ London Imperial Coll Sci Technol & Med, Blackett Lab, Quantum Opt & Laser Sci Grp, London SW7 2AZ, England

[3] Washington Univ, Dept Elect & Syst Engn, St Louis, MO 63130 USA

来源：

NANO LETTERS | 2012年 / 12卷 / 05期

基金：

英国工程与自然科学研究理事会;

关键词：

Surface plasmon polaritons; quantum plasmonics; propagation loss; Markovian; SPP waveguides; PHOTONS; LIGHT;

D O I：

10.1021/nl300671w

中图分类号：

O6 [化学];

学科分类号：

0703 ;

摘要：

Heralded single surface plasmon polaritons are excited using photons generated via spontaneous parametric down conversion. The mean excitation rates, intensity correlations, and Fock state populations are studied. The observed dependence of the second-order coherence in our experiment is consistent with a linear uncorrelated Markovian environment in the quantum regime. Our results provide important information about the effect of loss for assessing the potential of plasmonic waveguides for future nanophotonic circuitry in the quantum regime.

引用

页码：2504 / 2508

页数：5

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