Coupling of individual quantum emitters to channel plasmons

Bermúdez-Ureña, Esteban; González-Ballestero, Carlos; Geiselmann, Michael; Marty, Renaud; Holmgaard, Tobias; Alaverdyan, Yuri S.; Moreno, Esteban; García-Vidal, Francisco J.; Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I.; Quidant, Romain; Radko, Ilya P.

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Author

Bermúdez-Ureña, Esteban; González-Ballestero, Carlos; Geiselmann, Michael; Marty, Renaud; Holmgaard, Tobias; Alaverdyan, Yuri S.; Moreno, Esteban; García-Vidal, Francisco J.; Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I.; Quidant, Romain; Radko, Ilya P.

Entity

UAM. Departamento de Física Teórica de la Materia Condensada

Publisher

Nature Publishing Group

Date

2015-08-07

Citation

Nature Communications 6 (2015): 7883

ISSN

2041-1723 (online)

DOI

10.1038/ncomms8883

Funded by

E.B.-U., R.M., M.G. and R.Q. acknowledge the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (grant ERC- Plasmolight; no. 259196) and Fundacio´ privada CELLEX. E.B.-U. acknowledges support of the FPI fellowship from the Spanish MICINN. R.M. acknowledges support of Marie Curie and NEST fellowships. C.G.-B. and F.J.G.-V. acknowledge the European Research Council (ERC-2011-AdG, Proposal No. 290981). C.G.-B., E.M., and F.J.G.-V. acknowledge the Spanish MINECO (Contract No. MAT2011-28581-C02-01). C.G.-B. acknowledges support of the FPU fellowship from the Spanish MECD. I.P.R., T.H. and S.I.B. acknowledge financial support for this work from the Danish Council for Independent Research (the FTP project ANAP, Contract No. 09-072949) and from the European Research Council, Grant No. 341054 (PLAQNAP). Y.A. acknowledges the support of RYC-2011-08471 fellowship from MICINN

Project

info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/259196; info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/290981; Gobierno de España. MAT2011-28581-C02-01; info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/341054; Gobierno de España. RYC-2011-08471

Editor's Version

http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8883

Subjects

Channel plasmon polariton; Quantum chemistry; Radiative transfer; Quantum mechanics; Física

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/10486/675310

Rights

Esta obra está bajo una Licencia Creative Commons Atribución 4.0 Internacional.

Abstract

Efficient light-matter interaction lies at the heart of many emerging technologies that seek on-chip integration of solid-state photonic systems. Plasmonic waveguides, which guide the radiation in the form of strongly confined surface plasmon-polariton modes, represent a promising solution to manipulate single photons in coplanar architectures with unprecedented small footprints. Here we demonstrate coupling of the emission from a single quantum emitter to the channel plasmon polaritons supported by a V-groove plasmonic waveguide. Extensive theoretical simulations enable us to determine the position and orientation of the quantum emitter for optimum coupling. Concomitantly with these predictions, we demonstrate experimentally that 42% of a single nitrogen-vacancy centre emission efficiently couples into the supported modes of the V-groove. This work paves the way towards practical realization of efficient and long distance transfer of energy for integrated solid-state quantum systems

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