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标题：Coupling of a dipolar emitter into one-dimensional surface plasmon
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作者：Julien Barthes ; Alexandre Bouhelier ; Alain Dereux 等
期刊名称：Scientific Reports
电子版ISSN：2045-2322
出版年度：2013
卷号：3
DOI：10.1038/srep02734
出版社：Springer Nature
摘要：Quantum plasmonics relies on a new paradigm for light–matter interaction. It benefits from strong confinement of surface plasmon polaritons (SPP) that ensures efficient coupling at a deep subwavelength scale, instead of working with a long lifetime cavity polariton that increases the duration of interaction. The large bandwidth and the strong confinement of one dimensional SPP enable controlled manipulation of a nearby quantum emitter. This paves the way to ultrafast nanooptical devices. However, the large SPP bandwidth originates from strong losses so that a clear understanding of the coupling process is needed. In this report, we investigate in details the coupling between a single emitter and a plasmonic nanowire, but also SPP mediated coupling between two emitters. We notably clarify the role of losses in the Purcell factor, unavoidable to achieve nanoscale confinement down to 10⁻⁴( λ / n )³. Both the retarded and band-edge quasi-static regimes are discussed.