A hybrid plasmonic semiconductor laser

Daniele Costantini (1) , Léo Greusard (2) , Adel Bousseksou (1) , Yannick de Wilde (2) , Benjamin Habert (3) , François Marquier (3) , Jean-Jacques Greffet (3) , F. Lelarge (4) , J. Decobert (4) , Guang-Hua Duan (4) , Raffaele Colombelli (5)

1 IEF - Institut d'électronique fondamentale
2 IL - Institut Langevin - Ondes et Images (UMR7587)
3 Laboratoire Charles Fabry / Naphel
4 III-V Lab - Alcatel-Thalès III-V lab
5 Institut d'Electronique Fondamentale

We present a semiconductor-based approach to compensate plasmonic losses. The core idea is to employ an electrically pumped laser diode and to overlap its active region with the evanescent field of a surface plasmon wave. In order to keep the losses at a manageable level, we rely on hybrid waveguide modes stemming from the coupling of a dielectric and a plasmonic mode. The laser device we demonstrate operates--at telecom wavelengths--on such a hybrid plasmonic mode. The device operates by electrical injection at room temperature. The near-field imaging of the laser facet provides evidence of the stimulated emission into the hybrid mode and confirms the prediction of the numerical simulations

Domains: Optics / Photonic; Optics [physics.optics]

Daniele Costantini, Léo Greusard, Adel Bousseksou, Yannick de Wilde, Benjamin Habert, et al.. A hybrid plasmonic semiconductor laser. Applied Physics Letters, 2013, 102 (10), pp.101106. ⟨10.1063/1.4794175⟩. ⟨hal-00821549⟩