2013/02/23 by M. A. Kaliteevski, A. A. Lazarenko · 8 citations
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Absorption (acoustics) #Fabrication #Laser #Lasing threshold #Metal #Photonic Crystals and Applications #Plasmon #Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research #Strong Light-Matter Interactions #physics.optics
paper · pdf · doi:10.1134/s1063785013080087
published in Technical Physics Letters 39(8), 698-701 (Pleiades Publishing) · 3 figures, submitted to APL
arxiv created 2013/02/23 · openalex publication_date 2013/08/01 · arxiv updated 2015/06/15 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
It was widely accepted that embedding of metallic layers into optoelectronic structures is detrimental to lasing due to the absorption in the metal. However, recently macroscopic optical coherence and lasing was observed in microcavities with an intra-cavity single metallic layer. Here we propose the design of the of microcavity-type structure with two or more intra-cavity metallic layers which could serve as contacts for electrical pumping. The design of optical modes based on utilizing peculiarities of Tamm plasmon provides vanishing absorption due to the fixing of the node of the electric field of optical mode to metallic layers. Proposed design can be used for fabrication of vertical cavity lasers with intra-cavity metallic contacts.