Quantum Statistics of Surface Plasmon Polaritons in Metallic Stripe Waveguides

Single surface plasmon polaritons are excited using photons generated via spontaneous parametric down-conversion. The mean excitation rates, intensity correlations and Fock state populations are studied. The observed dependence of the second order coherence in our experiment is consistent with a lin...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2012-04
Main Authors: Giuliana Di Martino, Sonnefraud, Yannick, Kéna-Cohen, Stéphane, Tame, Mark, \c{S}ahin K Özdemir, Kim, M S, Maier, Stefan A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Circuits
Dependence
Markov processes
Photons
Polaritons
Quantum statistics
Waveguides
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Summary:Single surface plasmon polaritons are excited using photons generated via spontaneous parametric down-conversion. The mean excitation rates, intensity correlations and Fock state populations are studied. The observed dependence of the second order coherence in our experiment is consistent with a linear uncorrelated Markovian environment in the quantum regime. Our results provide important information about the effect of loss for assessing the potential of plasmonic waveguides for future nanophotonic circuitry in the quantum regime.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1204.1487