Issue

Vol. 7 No. 3 (2015)

Ultra-thin Glass Film Coated with Graphene: A New Material for Spontaneous Emission Enhancement of Quantum Emitter

https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-015-0037-5
Lu Sun
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication System and Networks, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, People’s Republic of China
Chun Jiang
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication System and Networks, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, People’s Republic of China

Corresponding Author: Chun Jiang

cjiang@sjtu.edu.cn

Nano-Micro Letters, Vol. 7 No. 3 (2015), Article Number: 261-267

Abstract

We propose an ultra-thin glass film coated with graphene as a new kind of surrounding material which can greatly enhance spontaneous emission rate (SER) of dipole emitter embedded in it. With properly designed parameters, numerical results show that SER-enhanced factors as high as 1.286 × 106 can be achieved. The influences of glass film thickness and chemical potential/doping level of graphene on spontaneous emission enhancement are also studied in this paper. A comparison is made between graphene and other coating materials such as gold and silver to see their performances in SER enhancement.

Keywords

Graphene surface plasmons Graphene plasmonics Quantum electrodynamics Superradiance Subwavelength structures
Sun, Lu, and Chun Jiang. 2015. “Ultra-Thin Glass Film Coated With Graphene: A New Material for Spontaneous Emission Enhancement of Quantum Emitter”. Nano-Micro Letters 7 (3):261-67. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-015-0037-5.
Download Citation
Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS)
BibTeX
References
  1. E.M. Purcell, Spontaneous emission probabilities at radio frequencies. Phys. Rev. 69, 681 (1946). doi:10.1103/PhysRev.69.674.2
  2. V.S.C.M. Rao, S. Hughes, Numerical study of exact Purcell factors in finite-size planar photonic crystal waveguides. Opt. Lett. 33(14), 1587–1589 (2008). doi:10.1364/OL.33.001587
  3. M. Kuttge, F.J.G. de Abajo, A. Polman, Ultrasmall mode volume plasmonic nanodisk resonators. Nano Lett. 10(5), 1537–1541 (2010). doi:10.1021/nl902546r
  4. P. Kristensen, C.V. Vlack, S. Hughes, Generalized effective mode volume for leaky optical cavities. Opt. Lett. 37(10), 1649–1651 (2012). doi:10.1364/OL.37.001649
  5. H. Iwase, D. Enlund, J. Vučković, Analysis of the Purcell effect in photonic and plasmonic crystals with losses. Opt. Express 18(16), 16546–16560 (2010). doi:10.1364/OE.18.016546
  6. A.K. Geim, K.S. Novoselov, The rise of graphene. Nat. Mater. 6, 183–191 (2007). doi:10.1038/nmat1849
  7. M. Jablan, H. Buljan, M. Soljačić, Plasmonics in graphene at infrared frequencies. Phys. Rev. B 80, 245435 (2009). doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.80.245435
  8. F.H.L. Koppens, D.E. Chang, F.J.G. de Abajo, Graphene plasmonics: a platform for strong light-matter interactions. Nano Lett. 11(8), 3370–3377 (2011). doi:10.1021/nl201771h
  9. G.W. Hanson, E. Forati, W. Linz, A.B. Yakovlev, Excitation of terahertz surface plasmons on graphene surfaces by an elementary dipole and quantum emitter: strong electrodynamic effect of dielectric support. Phys. Rev. B 86, 235440 (2012). doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.86.235440
  10. P.A. Huidobro, AYu. Nikitin, C. González-Ballestero, L. Martín-Moreno, F.J. García-Vidal, Superradiance mediated by graphene surface plasmons. Phys. Rev. B 85, 155438 (2012). doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.85.155438
  11. AYu. Nikitin, F. Guinea, F.J. García-Vidal, L. Martín-Moreno, Fields radiated by a nanoemitter in a graphene sheet. Phys. Rev. B 84, 195446 (2011). doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.84.195446
  12. L. Sun, B. Tang, C. Jiang, Enhanced spontaneous emission of mid-infrared dipole emitter in double-layer graphene waveguide. Opt. Express 22(22), 26487–26497 (2014). doi:10.1364/OE.22.026487
  13. R.A. Soref, S.J. Emelett, W.R. Buchwald, Silicon waveguided components for the long-wave infrared region. J. Opt. A 8, 840–848 (2006). doi:10.1088/1464-4258/8/10/004
  14. V. Raghunathan, D. Borlaug, R. Rice, B. Jalali, Demonstration of a mid-infrared silicon Raman amplifier. Opt. Express 15, 14355–14362 (2007). doi:10.1364/OE.15.014355
  15. P. Meystre, M. Sargent, Elements of Quantum Optics, 4th edn. (Springer, New York, 2007), pp. 299–349. doi:10.1007/978-3-662-03877-2
  16. L. Novotny, B. Hecht, Principles of Nano-optics, 2nd edn. (Cambridge University Press, New York, 2012), pp. 250–303. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511794193
  17. A. Reina, H. Son, L. Jiao, B. Fan, M.S. Dresselhaus, Z. Liu, J. Kong, Transferring and identification of single- and few-layer graphene on arbitrary substrates. J. Phys. Chem. C 112, 17741–17744 (2008). doi:10.1021/jp807380s
  18. L.A. Falkovsky, Optical properties of graphene. J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 129(1), 012004 (2008). doi:10.1088/1742-6596/129/1/012004
  19. M.I. Katsnelson, Graphene: Carbon in Two Dimensions (Cambridge University Press, New York, 2012), pp. 161–184. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139031080
  20. L. Gao, J. Shu, C. Qiu, Q. Xu, Excitation of plasmonic waves in graphene by guided-mode resonances. ACS Nano 6(9), 7806–7813 (2012). doi:10.1021/nn301888e
  21. A. Vakil, N. Engheta, Transformation optics using graphene. Science 332(6035), 1291–1294 (2011). doi:10.1126/science.1202691
  22. S.A. Mikhailov, K. Ziegler, New electromagnetic mode in graphene. Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 016803 (2007). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.016803
  23. D.B. Farmer, H.-Y. Chiu, Y.-M. Lin, K.A. Jenkins, F. Xia, P. Avouris, Utilization of a buffered dielectric to achieve high field-effect carrier mobility in graphene transistors. Nano Lett. 9(12), 4474–4478 (2009). doi:10.1021/nl902788u
  24. T. Fang, A. Konar, H. Xing, D. Jena, Mobility in semiconducting graphene nanoribbons: phonon, impurity, and edge roughness scattering. Phys. Rev. B 78, 205403 (2008). doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.78.205403
  25. I. Gontijo, M. Boroditsky, E. Yablonovitch, S. Keller, U.K. Mishra, S.P. DenBaars, Coupling of InGaN quantum-well photoluminescence to silver surface plasmons. Phys. Rev. B 60(16), 11564–11567 (1999). doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.60.11564
Read More
Author biographies are not available.
Download this PDF file
PDF
Statistic
Read Counter : 2475 Download : 1882