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Low-Threshold Surface Plasmon Lasing using the Band Edge Mode in a Bi-Periodic Groove Array |
| LI Jia-Qi, DONG Zheng-Gao**, QIU Teng, ZHAI Ya |
Department of Physics, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189
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LI Jia-Qi, DONG Zheng-Gao, QIU Teng et al 2013 Chin. Phys. Lett. 30 087805 |
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Abstract We study surface plasmon lasing based on periodic and bi-periodic groove arrays etched on a silver substrate. It is interesting to find that the bi-periodic structure can open a clear band gap of surface plasmon polaritons near the first Brillouin zone boundary, and thus it is promising to utilize the band edge modes of surface plasmon polaritons. A low threshold for the surface plasmon lasing effect is demonstrated numerically, owing to the low group velocity of the band edge mode, which provides a feasible way to design surface plasmon lasers.
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Received: 03 April 2013
Published: 21 November 2013
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78.67.Pt
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(Multilayers; superlattices; photonic structures; metamaterials)
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42.70.Qs
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(Photonic bandgap materials)
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42.60.Lh
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(Efficiency, stability, gain, and other operational parameters)
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42.50.Gy
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(Effects of atomic coherence on propagation, absorption, and Amplification of light; electromagnetically induced transparency and Absorption)
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