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Theoretical Investigation of Loss-Compensating Hybrid Waveguide Using Quasi-One-Dimensional Surface Plasmon for Green Nanolaser

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We report the theoretical investigation of an electrically injected plasmonic nanolaser in visible regime. The green nanolaser is based on a hybrid waveguide which employs semiconductor nanowire gain medium to compensate the loss in metallic cavity. Two-dimensional sub-wavelength confinements (mode area about λ 2/100) and net modal gain are simultaneously achieved for quasi-one-dimensional surface plasmon mode supported in such waveguide. The device structure is further optimized for room temperature operation with achievable injected current density about several kilo ampere/square centimetres (kA/cm2). The approach is also beneficial to developing other nanophotonic devices on sub-wavelength scale.

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Acknowledgments

This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 61076013 and 60990313, and National Basic Research Program of China under Grant No. 2012CB619304.

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    Wei Yang, Qingbin Ji, Hua Zong, Kamran Rajabi, Tongxing Yan & Xiaodong Hu

  2. Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, PO Box 8009, Beijing, 100088, China

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Yang, W., Ji, Q., Zong, H. et al. Theoretical Investigation of Loss-Compensating Hybrid Waveguide Using Quasi-One-Dimensional Surface Plasmon for Green Nanolaser. Plasmonics 11, 159–165 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-015-0001-8

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