Tamm plasmons for efficient interaction of telecom wavelength photons and quantum dots

Matthew Parker; Edmund Harbord; Andrew Young; Petros Androvitsaneas; John Rarity; Ruth Oulton

Tamm plasmons for efficient interaction of telecom wavelength photons and quantum dots

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Author(s): Matthew Parker¹ ; Edmund Harbord^{1, 2} ; Andrew Young² ; Petros Androvitsaneas² ; John Rarity² ; Ruth Oulton^{1, 2}
- Affiliations: 1: School of Physics, H H Wills Physics Laboratory , University of Bristol , Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TL , UK ;
  2: Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering , University of Bristol , Merchant Ventures Building, Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1 , UK
Source: Volume 12, Issue 1, February 2018, p. 11 – 14
DOI: 10.1049/iet-opt.2017.0076 , Print ISSN 1751-8768, Online ISSN 1751-8776

This is an open access article published by the IET under the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

Received 19/06/2017, Accepted 19/10/2017, Revised 29/09/2017, Published 30/10/2017

The authors present here designs for tuneable confined Tamm plasmons (CTPs) resonant at 1.3 μm, consisting of an AlAs/GaAs distributed Bragg reflector and gold disc. Using numerical methods they explored the effect of disc diameter on the CTP resonance and position of a dipole source (modelling a quantum dot) on emission through the disc. They found decreasing disc diameter resulted in a blue-shifted fundamental mode and that a dipole positioned at the centre of the disc emitted with an angular distribution that collected 90% of the transmitted power within a numerical aperture of 0.7. They also explore the Purcell enhancement under the CTP as a function of dipole position.

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