High-Performance Electro-Optic Manipulation by Plasmonic Light Absorber With Nano-Cavity Field Confinement

Light manipulation with encoded plasmonic nanostructures

Plasmonics, which allows for manipulation of light field beyond the fundamental diffraction limit, has recently attracted tremendous research efforts. The propagating surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) confined on a metal-dielectric interface provide an ideal two-dimensional (2D) platform to develop subwavelength optical circuits for on-chip information processing and communication. The surface ...

Electro-optic Properties of Semiconductor Nano-crystals And Electro-optic Polymers And Their Applications

Electro-optic Properties of II-VI Semiconductor Nano-clusters and Electro-optic Chromophores

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Indium-Tin-Oxide for High-performance Electro-optic Modulation

Advances in opto-electronics are often led by discovery and development of materials featuring unique properties. Recently, thematerial class of transparent conductive oxides (TCO) has attracted attention for active photonic devices on-chip. In particular, indium tin oxide (ITO) is found to have refractive index changes on the order of unity. This property makes it possible to achieve electroop...

Cavity-free plasmonic nanolasing enabled by dispersionless stopped light

When light is brought to a standstill, its interaction with gain media increases dramatically due to a singularity in the density of optical states. Concurrently, stopped light engenders an inherent and cavity-free feedback mechanism, similar in effect to the feedback that has been demonstrated and exploited in large-scale disordered media and random lasers. Here we study the spatial, temporal ...