
Proceedings Paper
Surface plasmon enhanced optoelectronicsFormat | Member Price | Non-Member Price |
---|---|---|
$17.00 | $21.00 |
Paper Abstract
Metallic nanostructures can be designed to operate effectively as a coupling structure for incident beams to surface
plasmon polaritons (SPPs). On a semiconductor, metal nanostructures can act simultaneously as a device electrode while
ensuring strong optical field overlap with the active region. Additionally, SPP fields can be confined to sub-wavelength
dimensions and significantly enhanced relative to the exciting field. These features are very attractive for nano-scale
optoelectronic devices such as photodetectors as the excitation of SPPs alters conventional trade-offs between
responsivity and speed respectively. This is due to the facts that sub-wavelength confinement enables the active region to
be shrunk to nano-scale dimensions yet good optoelectronic performance can be maintained due to the SPP field
enhancement. In this paper we discuss recent progress on surface plasmon enhanced photodetectors.
Paper Details
Date Published: 25 September 2014
PDF: 5 pages
Proc. SPIE 9288, Photonics North 2014, 928819 (25 September 2014); doi: 10.1117/12.2081400
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 9288:
Photonics North 2014
Steve MacLean; David V. Plant, Editor(s)
PDF: 5 pages
Proc. SPIE 9288, Photonics North 2014, 928819 (25 September 2014); doi: 10.1117/12.2081400
Show Author Affiliations
Pierre Berini, Univ. of Ottawa (Canada)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 9288:
Photonics North 2014
Steve MacLean; David V. Plant, Editor(s)
© SPIE. Terms of Use
