We experimentally demonstrate an ultracompact PlasMOStor, a plasmon slot waveguide field-effect modulator based on a transparent conducting oxide active region. By electrically modulating the conducting oxide material deposited into the gaps of highly confined plasmonic slot waveguides, we demonstrate field-effect dynamics giving rise to modulation with high dynamic range (2.71 dB/μm) and low waveguide loss (∼0.45 dB/μm). The large modulation strength is due to the large change in complex dielectric function when the signal wavelength approaches the surface plasmon resonance in the voltage-tuned conducting oxide accumulation layer. The results provide insight about the design of ultracompact, nanoscale modulators for future integrated nanophotonic circuits.

We experimentally demonstrate plasmonic nanocircuits operating as subdiffraction directional couplers optically excited with high efficiency from free-space using optical Yagi-Uda style antennas at lambda(0) = 1550 nm. The optical Yagi-Uda style antennas are designed to feed channel plasmon waveguides with high efficiency (45% in coupling, 60% total emission), narrow angular directivity (<40 degrees), and low insertion loss. SPP channel waveguides exhibit propagation lengths as large as 34 mu m with adiabatically tuned confinement and are integrated with ultracompact (5 x 10 mu m(2)), highly dispersive directional couplers, which enable 30 dB discrimination over Delta lambda = 200 nm with only 0.3 dB device loss

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Abstract. High quality CdS nanowires suspended in air were optically pumped both below and above the lasing threshold. The polarization of the pump laser was varied while the nanowire emission was monitored in a 'head-on' measurement geometry. Highest pump-efficiency and most efficient absorption of the pump radiation are demonstrated for an incident electric field being polarized parallel to the nanowire axis. This polarization dependence was observed both above the lasing threshold and in the regime of amplified spontaneous emission. Measured Stokes parameters of the nanowire emission reveal that due to the onset of lasing the degree of polarization rapidly increases from approximately 15% to 85 %. Both, Stokes parameters and degree of polarization of the nanowire lasing emission are independent of the excitation polarization.