Quantum plasmonics: second-order coherence of surface plasmons launched by quantum emitters into a metallic film
Optics
2012-07-09 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Abstract
We address the issue of the second-order coherence of single surface plasmons launched by a quantum source of light into extended gold films. The quantum source of light is made of a scanning fluorescent nanodiamond hosting five nitrogen-vacancy (NV) color centers. By using a specially designed microscopy that combines near-field optics with far-field leakage-radiation microscopy in the Fourier space and adapted spatial filtering, we find that the quantum statistics of the initial source of light is preserved after conversion to surface plasmons and propagation along the polycrystalline gold film.
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@article{arxiv.1205.2072,
title = {Quantum plasmonics: second-order coherence of surface plasmons launched by quantum emitters into a metallic film},
author = {O. Mollet and S. Huant and G. Dantelle and T. Gacoin and A. Drezet},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.2072},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
Second version with minor changes made to comply with Referees' comments. Editorially approved for publication in Phys. Rev. B on 22 June 2012