Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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11263357 | Optics & Laser Technology | 2019 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
In this article two optically pumped nanorod-based plasmonic nanolasers which composed of two coupled metal-insulator-semiconductor (MIS) hybrid plasmonic waveguides are investigated. In the first structure, a common metallic nanorod is utilized to construct a semiconductor-insulator-metal-insulator-semiconductor (SIMIS) nanostructure while in the second one, the semiconductor part is shared and a metal-insulator-semiconductor-insulator-metal (MISIM) based plasmonic nanolaser is formed. Simulation results based on the finite element method (FEM) show that the SIMIS structure with nanorods' radii of 40â¯nm and insulator layer thickness of more than 12.67â¯nm has lower threshold and simultaneously lower normalized mode area at the lasing wavelength of 490â¯nm compared to the previously reported MIS nanostructure with the same parameters. The simulation results for the second proposed structure show that the MISIM based spaser has a lower effective mode index and consequently lower wave number at the wavelength of 490â¯nm, compared to both SIMIS and MIS based nanocavities. This results in less challenge for coupling to on-chip waveguides. The cavity length of the presented nanorod-based spasers has been optimized by considering the lasing mode propagation distance as the nanocavity length which leads to a better light matter interaction enhancement.
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Authors
Mohammad Hossein Motavas, Abbas Zarifkar,