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

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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
Pages (from-to)	2504-2508
Number of pages	5
Journal	Nano Letters
Volume	12
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/nl300671w
Publication status	Published - 9 May 2012
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Markovian
propagation loss
quantum plasmonics
SPP waveguides
Surface plasmon polaritons

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