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NEAR-FIELD OPTICAL EXCITATION AND DETECTION OF SURFACE PLASMONS

2007

Characterization of thermo-optical 2×2 switch configurations made of Dielectric Loaded Surface Plasmon Polariton Waveguides for telecom routing archi…

2012

We report on the characterization of thermo-optic switch structures based on Dielectric Loaded Surface Plasmon Polariton Waveguide for high data bit rate transfer. Performances are extracted by Leakage Radiation Microscopy and compared to numerical results.

Dihedron dielectric loaded surface plasmon athermal polarization converter.

2014

We investigate numerically a novel plasmonic polarization converter relying on the excitation of a so-called dihedron dielectric loaded plasmon polariton. The dihedron dielectric loaded waveguide consists of a dielectric ridge implemented at the inner corner of a metal-coated dielectric step. For a dielectric ridge with a square cross section, the plasmon polariton modes supported by each side of the metallized step hybridize to create supermodes with crossed polarizations. We show that the two supermodes can be operated in a dual-mode interferometer configuration to perform an efficient (24 dB) TE-TM/TM-TE polarization conversion over typical distances below 30 μm at telecommunications wav…

Integration of solution processed materials in polymer waveguides

2015

Active solution processed nanomaterials have emerged as a very high promising candidates for photonic applications. The reason of this arises from the facts that they exhibit high quantum yield emission at room temperature and wavelength tunability, other than their processing involves easy and cheap fabrication techniques and a versatile integration on different substrates. In this way, active properties of different solution processed materials, as colloidal quantum dots, organic dyes and rare earth nanoparticles, have been exploited to demonstrate spontaneous emission or optical modulation in photonic devices. However, in spite of such an attractiveness of these nanomaterials, little has…

Near-field characterization of plasmon polariton propagation along periodically nano-structured metal thin films

2007

We operate a near-field optical microscope to investigate the properties of periodically nano-structured metal thin films designed to control at the micron scale the propagation or the excitation of surface plasmon polaritons.

All-optical and electro-optical active plasmonic telecom components

2011

Active plasmonics is an attractive emerging field in which the ability to control the surface plasmon polariton (SPP) propagation finds many applications such as realization of fully functional integrated photonic circuitry. We demonstrate both numerically and experimentally switching of the SPP transmission based on two different approaches namely the all-optical and electro-optical at telecom wavelengths. The plasmonic component consists of a compact and efficient SPP switch utilizing highly sensitive ring resonator which has high sensitivity to the refractive index changes. Fabrication was done via e-beam lithography utilizing advanced proximity corrections. The compenents were character…

Electrical excitation of surface plasmons by an individual carbon nanotube transistor.

2013

We demonstrate here the realization of an integrated, electrically driven, source of surface plasmon polaritons. Light-emitting individual single-walled carbon nanotube field effect transistors were fabricated in a plasmonic-ready platform. The devices were operated at ambient conditions to act as an electroluminescence source localized near the contacting gold electrodes. We show that photon emission from the semiconducting channel can couple to propagating surface plasmons developing in the electrical terminals. Our results show that a common functional element can be operated for two different platforms emphasizing thus the high degree of compatibility between state-of-the-art nano-optoe…

Space-time features of THz emission from optical rectification in sub-wavelength areas

2011

We present our investigation on the THz space-time emission characteristic induced by the non-paraxial generation regime in highly localized THz generation via optical rectification on sub-wavelength areas.

Affordable, ultra-broadband coherent detection of terahertz pulses via CMOS-compatible solid-state devices

2017

We demonstrate the first fully solid-state technique for the coherent detection of ultra-broadband THz pulses (0.1-10 THz), relying on the electric-field-induced second-harmonic generation attained in integrated CMOS-compatible devices.

Spatial and spectral properties of small area THz generation for sub-wavelength microscopy

2010

A highly localized THz source is a promising candidate for sub-wavelength microscopy, due to its superior radiation power throughput with respect to others near-field techniques. Here, we report on the spatial and the spectral near-field properties of our highly localized THz source.