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HL: Fachverband Halbleiterphysik

HL 93: Poster Session: Metal-Semiconductor Hybrid Systems, Plasmonic Systems / Photonic Crystals / Carbon: Diamond & CNT / Quantum Information Systems

HL 93.5: Poster

Thursday, March 29, 2012, 16:00–19:00, Poster D

FDTD Simulations on three-dimensional plasmonic metamaterials containing optically active quantum wells — •Andreas Rottler, Malte Harland, Stephan Schwaiger, Aune Koitmäe, Detlef Heitmann, and Stefan Mendach — Institute of Applied Physics, University of Hamburg, Germany

Rolled-up metal/semiconductor multilayers containing optically active quantum wells opened up a new path for loss reduction in three dimensional metamaterials [1]. Recently, it was also shown that the embedding of plasmonic structures into these metamaterials can result in pumping induced transparency [2].

In this contribution we report on our recent finite-difference time-domain simulations on metamaterials consisting of alternating layers of plasmonic silver gratings and optically active semiconductor quantum wells. We investigated structure-design improvements in order to reduce the pumping power that is needed for optical net-gain.

We gratefully acknowledge support by the DFG via the Graduiertenkolleg 1286.

[1] S. Schwaiger et al., Phys. Rev. B 84, 155325 (2011).

[2] A. Rottler et al., J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 28, 2402-2407 (2011).