Gain-compensated metal cavity modes and a million-fold improvement of Purcell factors

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Main Authors: VanDrunen, Becca, Ren, Juanjuan, Franke, Sebastian, Hughes, Stephen
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Published: 2023
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author VanDrunen, Becca
Ren, Juanjuan
Franke, Sebastian
Hughes, Stephen
author_facet VanDrunen, Becca
Ren, Juanjuan
Franke, Sebastian
Hughes, Stephen
contents Using a rigorous mode theory for gain-compensated plasmonic dimers, we demonstrate how quality factors and Purcell factors can be dramatically increased, improving the quality factors from 10 to over 26,000 and the peak Purcell factors from around 3000 to over 10 billion. Full three-dimensional calculations are presented for gold dimers in a finite-size gain medium, which allows one to easily surpass fundamental Purcell factor limits of lossy media. Within a regime of linear system response, we show how the Purcell factors are modified from the contributions from the projected local density of states as well as a non-local gain. Further, we show that the effective mode volume and radiative beta factors remain relatively constant, despite the significant enhancement of the Purcell factors.
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spellingShingle Gain-compensated metal cavity modes and a million-fold improvement of Purcell factors
VanDrunen, Becca
Ren, Juanjuan
Franke, Sebastian
Hughes, Stephen
Optics
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Using a rigorous mode theory for gain-compensated plasmonic dimers, we demonstrate how quality factors and Purcell factors can be dramatically increased, improving the quality factors from 10 to over 26,000 and the peak Purcell factors from around 3000 to over 10 billion. Full three-dimensional calculations are presented for gold dimers in a finite-size gain medium, which allows one to easily surpass fundamental Purcell factor limits of lossy media. Within a regime of linear system response, we show how the Purcell factors are modified from the contributions from the projected local density of states as well as a non-local gain. Further, we show that the effective mode volume and radiative beta factors remain relatively constant, despite the significant enhancement of the Purcell factors.
title Gain-compensated metal cavity modes and a million-fold improvement of Purcell factors
topic Optics
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.05806