Surface Plasmon Hybridization of

Whispering Gallery Mode Microdisk Laser

Oka Kurniawan
Iftikhar Ahmed
Er Ping Li

Photonics Global
14th to 16th December 2010
Singapore
Plasmonics promises both high speed and miniaturization

NanoPlasmonics (A*STAR-SERC)

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Research on Plasmonics source is essential

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 Previous works have shown progress though having low intensity

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in metallic nanowires coupled to quantum dots.” Nature 450, no. 7168
(November 2007): 402-406.

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 Metal-insulator-metal structure can excite surface plasmon and
coupled directly to waveguide

Walters, R. J., R. V. A. van Loon, I. Brunets, J. Schmitz, and A.

Polman. “A silicon-based electrical source of surface plasmon
polaritons.” Nat Mater 9, no. 1 (January 2010): 21-25.

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We use microdisk laser cavity structure to obtain high intensity
output

metal Radius = 1 µm
Layer thicknesses = 120 nm
semiconductor
metal

MSM MIM MIM

source waveguide circuits

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Finite-difference time domain method with realistic solid-state
model and Lorentz-Drude model is used for simulation

Multi-electron multi-level model for modeling electron

dynamic in semiconductor. The model can model stimulated
emission in laser.

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Conventional microdisk shows whispering gallery mode

Total electric field at the centre Electric field peak intensity at 1.47 µm.
plane of the microdisk

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 Attaching metal layers hybridize the whispering gallery mode with
surface plasmon polariton mode

Total electric field at middle plane Comparison of whispering gallery mode Electric field enhancement is about 20,000
of the plasmonic microdisk. and surface plasmon polariton mode. times at 1.47 µm.

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We can couple the plasmonic source to an MIM waveguide with
high efficiency

Metal Metal
Semiconductor Insulator
Metal Metal

Gap = 20 nm

Side view

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We observed the surface plasmon polariton wave traveling along the
waveguide and the coupling efficiency is about 60%

Normalized electric field at the middle of the plane. The intensity at the waveguide is 60% of the microdisk.

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Summary

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