Spontaneous emission noise in long-range surface plasmon polariton waveguide based optical gyroscope

被引：7
作者：
Wang, Yang-Yang [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Zhang, Tong [1 ,2 ,3 ]
机构：
[1] Southeast Univ, Sch Elect Sci & Engn, Nanjing 210096, Jiangsu, Peoples R China
[2] Southeast Univ, Key Lab Microinertial Instrument & Adv Nav Techno, Minist Educ, Nanjing 210096, Jiangsu, Peoples R China
[3] Southeast Univ, Suzhou Res Inst, Suzhou Key Lab Met Nanooptoelect Technol, Suzhou 215123, Peoples R China
来源：
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS | 2014年 / 4卷
关键词：
STIMULATED-EMISSION; GAIN; AMPLIFICATION; RESONATORS;
D O I：
10.1038/srep06369
中图分类号：
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号：
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要：
Spontaneous emission noise is an important limit to the performance of active plasmonic devices. Here, we investigate the spontaneous emission noise in the long-range surface plasmon-polariton waveguide based optical gyroscope. A theoretical model of the sensitivity is established to study the incoherent multi-beam interference of spontaneous emission in the gyroscope. Numerical results show that spontaneous emission produces a drift in the transmittance spectra and lowers the signal-to-noise-ratio of the gyroscope. It also strengthens the shot noise to be the main limit to the sensitivity of the gyroscope for high propagation loss. To reduce the negative effects of the spontaneous emission noise on the gyroscope, an external feedback loop is suggested to estimate the drift in the transmittance spectra and therefor enhance the sensitivity. Our work lays a foundation for the improvement of long-range surface plasmon-polariton gyroscope and paves the way to its practical application.
引用
收藏
页数：6
相关论文
共 27 条
[1]   Observation of Stimulated Emission of Surface Plasmon Polaritons [J].
Ambati, Muralidhar ;
Nam, Sung Hyun ;
Ulin-Avila, Erick ;
Genov, Dentcho A. ;
Bartal, Guy ;
Zhang, Xiang .
NANO LETTERS, 2008, 8 (11) :3998-4001
[2]   Surface plasmon amplification by stimulated emission of radiation: Quantum generation of coherent surface plasmons in nanosystems [J].
Bergman, DJ ;
Stockman, MI .
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 2003, 90 (02) :4
[3]   Directional couplers using long-range surface plasmon polariton waveguides [J].
Boltasseva, Alexandra ;
Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I. .
IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS, 2006, 12 (06) :1233-1241
[4]   A new integrated optical angular velocity sensor [J].
Ciminelli, C ;
Peluso, F ;
Armenise, MN .
INTEGRATED OPTICS: DEVICES, MATERIALS, AND TECHNOLOGIES IX, 2005, 5728 :93-100
[5]  
Ciminelli C., 2011, ADV GYROSCOPE TECHNO, P63
[6]   Theory of noise in high-gain surface plasmon-polariton amplifiers incorporating dipolar gain media [J].
De Leon, Israel ;
Berini, Pierre .
OPTICS EXPRESS, 2011, 19 (21) :20506-20517
[7]   Spontaneous emission in long-range surface plasmon-polariton amplifiers [J].
De Leon, Israel ;
Berini, Pierre .
PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 2011, 83 (08)
[8]   Amplification of long-range surface plasmons by a dipolar gain medium [J].
De Leon, Israel ;
Berini, Pierre .
NATURE PHOTONICS, 2010, 4 (06) :382-387
[9]   Theory of surface plasmon-polariton amplification in planar structures incorporating dipolar gain media [J].
De Leon, Israel ;
Berini, Pierre .
PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 2008, 78 (16)
[10]   Optical gain, spontaneous and stimulated emission of surface plasmon polaritons in confined plasmonic waveguide [J].
des Francs, G. Colas ;
Bramant, P. ;
Grandidier, J. ;
Bouhelier, A. ;
Weeber, J. -C. ;
Dereux, A. .
OPTICS EXPRESS, 2010, 18 (16) :16327-16334
123