Proposed graphene nanospaser

Vadym Apalkov; Mark I Stockman

doi:10.1038/lsa.2014.72

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- Proposed graphene nanospaser
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 3, Issue 3, (2014)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
  2.Faculty of Physics, Ludwig Maximilian University, D-80539 Munich, Germany
  3.Max Plank Institute for Quantum Optics, D-85748 Garching, Germany
- Author bio：
  
  Professor V Apalkov, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA Email: vapalkov@gsu.edu
  Professor MI Stockman, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA Email: mstockman@gsu.edu
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- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2014.72
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- Published：2014-09，
  
  Published Online：18 July 2014，
  
  Received：17 December 2013，
  
  Revised：16 April 2014，
  
  Accepted：16 April 2014
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Apalkov, V. & Stockman, M. I. Proposed graphene nanospaser. Light: Science & Applications, 3, e191 (2014).
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Apalkov, V. & Stockman, M. I. Proposed graphene nanospaser. Light: Science & Applications, 3, e191 (2014). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2014.72.

摘要

Abstract

We propose a novel nanospaser that operates in the mid-infrared region and utilizes a nanopatch of graphene as its plasmonic core and a quantum-well cascade as its gain medium. This design takes advantage of the low optical losses in graphene resulting from its high electron mobility. The proposed quantum cascade graphene spaser generates optical fields with unprecedentedly high nanolocalization

which is characteristic of graphene plasmons. This spaser will be an efficient nanosource of intense and coherent hot-spot fields in the mid-infrared spectral region with potential widespread applications in mid-infrared nanoscopy

nanospectroscopy

nanolithography

and optoelectronic information processing.

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Keywords

graphenequantum cascade laserquantum wellspaser

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