Coupling emission from single localized defects in 2D semiconductor to surface plasmon polaritons

Autor: Cai, Tao, Dutta, Subhojit, Aghaeimeibodi, Shahriar, Yang, Zhili, Nah, Sanghee, Fourkas, John T., Waks, Edo
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Nano Lett. 2017, 17, 11, 6564-6568
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b02222
Popis: Coupling of an atom-like emitter to surface plasmons provides a path toward significant optical nonlinearity, which is essential in quantum information processing and quantum networks. A large coupling strength requires nanometer-scale positioning accuracy of the emitter near the surface of the plasmonic structure, which is challenging. We demonstrate the coupling of single localized defects in a tungsten diselenide (WSe2) monolayer self-aligned to the surface plasmon mode of a silver nanowire. The silver nanowire induces a strain gradient on the monolayer at the overlapping area, leading to the formation of localized defect emission sites that are intrinsically close to the surface plasmon. We measure a coupling efficiency with a lower bound of 39% from the emitter into the plasmonic mode of the silver nanowire. This technique offers a way to achieve efficient coupling between plasmonic structures and localized defects of 2D semiconductors.
Databáze: arXiv