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The Design and Research of a New Hybrid Surface Plasmonic Waveguide Nanolaser
Using the hybrid plasmonic waveguide (HPW) principle as a basis, a new planar symmetric Ag-dielectric-SiO(2) hybrid waveguide structure is designed and applied to nanolasers. First, the effects on the electric field distribution and the characteristic parameters of the waveguide structure of changes...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8123586/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33926014 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma14092230 |
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author | Liu, Yahui Li, Fang Xu, Cheng He, Zhichong Gao, Jie Zhou, Yunpeng Xu, Litu |
author_facet | Liu, Yahui Li, Fang Xu, Cheng He, Zhichong Gao, Jie Zhou, Yunpeng Xu, Litu |
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description | Using the hybrid plasmonic waveguide (HPW) principle as a basis, a new planar symmetric Ag-dielectric-SiO(2) hybrid waveguide structure is designed and applied to nanolasers. First, the effects on the electric field distribution and the characteristic parameters of the waveguide structure of changes in the material, the nanometer radius, and the dielectric layer thickness were studied in detail using the finite element method with COMSOL Multiphysics software. The effects of two different dielectric materials on the HPW were studied. It was found that the waveguide performance could be improved effectively and the mode propagation loss was reduced when graphene was used as the dielectric, with the minimum effective propagation loss reaching 0.025. Second, the gain threshold and the quality factor of a nanolaser based on the proposed hybrid waveguide structure were analyzed. The results showed that the nanolaser has a lasing threshold of 1.76 μm(−1) and a quality factor of 109 when using the graphene dielectric. A low-loss, low-threshold laser was realized, and the mode field was constrained by deep sub-wavelength light confinement. This structure has broad future application prospects in the integrated optics field and provides ideas for the development of subminiature photonic devices and high-density integrated circuits. |
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spelling | pubmed-81235862021-05-16 The Design and Research of a New Hybrid Surface Plasmonic Waveguide Nanolaser Liu, Yahui Li, Fang Xu, Cheng He, Zhichong Gao, Jie Zhou, Yunpeng Xu, Litu Materials (Basel) Article Using the hybrid plasmonic waveguide (HPW) principle as a basis, a new planar symmetric Ag-dielectric-SiO(2) hybrid waveguide structure is designed and applied to nanolasers. First, the effects on the electric field distribution and the characteristic parameters of the waveguide structure of changes in the material, the nanometer radius, and the dielectric layer thickness were studied in detail using the finite element method with COMSOL Multiphysics software. The effects of two different dielectric materials on the HPW were studied. It was found that the waveguide performance could be improved effectively and the mode propagation loss was reduced when graphene was used as the dielectric, with the minimum effective propagation loss reaching 0.025. Second, the gain threshold and the quality factor of a nanolaser based on the proposed hybrid waveguide structure were analyzed. The results showed that the nanolaser has a lasing threshold of 1.76 μm(−1) and a quality factor of 109 when using the graphene dielectric. A low-loss, low-threshold laser was realized, and the mode field was constrained by deep sub-wavelength light confinement. This structure has broad future application prospects in the integrated optics field and provides ideas for the development of subminiature photonic devices and high-density integrated circuits. MDPI 2021-04-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8123586/ /pubmed/33926014 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma14092230 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Liu, Yahui Li, Fang Xu, Cheng He, Zhichong Gao, Jie Zhou, Yunpeng Xu, Litu The Design and Research of a New Hybrid Surface Plasmonic Waveguide Nanolaser |
title | The Design and Research of a New Hybrid Surface Plasmonic Waveguide Nanolaser |
title_full | The Design and Research of a New Hybrid Surface Plasmonic Waveguide Nanolaser |
title_fullStr | The Design and Research of a New Hybrid Surface Plasmonic Waveguide Nanolaser |
title_full_unstemmed | The Design and Research of a New Hybrid Surface Plasmonic Waveguide Nanolaser |
title_short | The Design and Research of a New Hybrid Surface Plasmonic Waveguide Nanolaser |
title_sort | design and research of a new hybrid surface plasmonic waveguide nanolaser |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8123586/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33926014 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma14092230 |
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