Nature Communications (Dec 2017)

Unusual scaling laws for plasmonic nanolasers beyond the diffraction limit

  • Suo Wang,
  • Xing-Yuan Wang,
  • Bo Li,
  • Hua-Zhou Chen,
  • Yi-Lun Wang,
  • Lun Dai,
  • Rupert F. Oulton,
  • Ren-Min Ma

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01662-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Since the first proposal for plasmonic nanolasers there has been a debate about the limitations on performance posed by the inherent losses in metallic systems. Here, the authors compare over 100 plasmonic and photonic laser devices and find sub-wavelength plasmonic lasers to be advantageous.