Observation of Stimulated Emission of Surface Plasmon Polaritons
Muralidhar Ambati(University of California, Berkeley), SungHyun Nam(University of California, Berkeley), Erick Ulin-Avila(University of California, Berkeley), Dentcho A. Genov(University of California, Berkeley), Guy Bartal(University of California, Berkeley), Xiang Zhang(University of California, Berkeley)
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Abstract
We report a direct experimental evidence of stimulated emission of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) at telecom wavelengths (1532 nm) with erbium doped glass as a gain medium. We observe an increase in the propagation length of signal surface plasmons when erbium ions are excited optically using pump SPP. The design, fabrication, and characterization of SPP waveguides, thin gold metal strips, embedded in erbium (Er) doped phosphate glass is presented. Such systems can be suitable as integrated devices coupling electronic and photonic data transmissions as well as SPP amplifiers and SPP lasers.
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