Quantum statistics of surface plasmon polaritons in metallic stripe waveguides

Giuliana Di Martino; Yannick Sonnefraud; Stéphane Kéna-Cohen; Mark Tame; Şahin K. Özdemir; M. S. Kim; Stefan A. Maier

doi:10.1021/nl300671w

Quantum statistics of surface plasmon polaritons in metallic stripe waveguides

Giuliana Di Martino, Yannick Sonnefraud, Stéphane Kéna-Cohen, Mark Tame, Şahin K. Özdemir, M. S. Kim, Stefan A. Maier

Engineering Science and Mechanics

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Abstract

Heralded 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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	2504-2508
Number of pages	5
Journal	Nano letters
Volume	12
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/nl300671w
State	Published - May 9 2012

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Bioengineering
General Chemistry
General Materials Science
Condensed Matter Physics
Mechanical Engineering

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