Quantum Statistics of Surface Plasmon Polaritons in Metallic Stripe Waveguides
Quantum Physics
2013-12-25 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Optics
Abstract
Single surface plasmon polaritons are excited using photons generated via spontaneous parametric down-conversion. The mean excitation rates, intensity correlations and Fock state populations are studied. The observed dependence of the second order coherence in our experiment is consistent with a linear uncorrelated Markovian environment in the quantum regime. Our results provide important information about the effect of loss for assessing the potential of plasmonic waveguides for future nanophotonic circuitry in the quantum regime.
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@article{arxiv.1204.1487,
title = {Quantum Statistics of Surface Plasmon Polaritons in Metallic Stripe Waveguides},
author = {Giuliana Di Martino and Yannick Sonnefraud and Stéphane Kéna-Cohen and Mark Tame and Şahin K. Özdemir and M. S. Kim and Stefan A. Maier},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.1487},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
21 pages, 6 figures, published in Nano Letters, publication date (web): March 27 (2012)