Confined Tamm Plasmon Lasers

Clémentine Symonds (1) , Guillaume Lheureux (1) , Jean-Paul Hugonin (2) , Jean-Jacques Greffet (2) , Julien Laverdant (1) , G. Brucoli (1) , A. Lemaitre (3) , P. Senellart (3) , Joël Bellessa (1)

1 ILM - Institut Lumière Matière [Villeurbanne]
2 Laboratoire Charles Fabry / Naphel
3 LPN - Laboratoire de photonique et de nanostructures

We demonstrate that confined Tamm plasmon modes can be advantageously exploited for the realization of new kind of metal/semiconductor lasers. Laser emission is demonstrated for Tamm structures with various diameters of the metallic disks which provide the confinement. A reduction of the threshold with the size is observed. The competition between the acceleration of the spontaneous emission and the increase of the losses leads to an optimal size, which is in good agreement with calculations.

Keywords: Plasmon; Tamm plasmon; laser; semiconductor devices; hybrid metal/dielectric structures

Domains: Optics [physics.optics]

Clémentine Symonds, Guillaume Lheureux, Jean-Paul Hugonin, Jean-Jacques Greffet, Julien Laverdant, et al.. Confined Tamm Plasmon Lasers. Nano Letters, 2013, 13 (7), pp.3179-3184. ⟨10.1021/nl401210b⟩. ⟨hal-01349724⟩