Description

In Pat 2 of this four-part tutorial, Mark Stockman concentrates on spasers and spaser-based lasers. A spaser is a plasmonic nanosystem containing a metal nanoparticle, which plays a role of the plasmonic resonator, and semiconductor gain shell. The tutorial considers fundamental theory of the spaser, including both stationary (CW) operation and its ultrafast kinetics. The tutorial then reviews an extensive literature on various spasers demonstrated experimentally, and outlines fundamentals of applications of both nanospasers and lasing spasers.

This is Part Two of a four-part tutorial.

• Part One: Plasmonics and Metamaterials for Active Photonics Devices: Materials for Nanoplasmonics and Their Fundamental Properties
• Part Three: Plasmonics and Metamaterials for Active Photonics Devices: Chiral Nanostructures and Metamaterials
• Part Four: Plasmonics and Metamaterials for Active Photonics Devices: From Metamaterials to Active Metadevices

Speaker(s):

• Mark Stockman, Georgia State University