%0 Journal Article
%T On-Chip Single Plasmon Detection
%A Heeres, R. W.
%A Dorenbos, S. N.
%A Koene, B.
%A Solomon, G. S.
%A Kouwenhoven, L. P.
%A Zwiller, V.
%J Nano Letters
%D 2010
%V 10
%F Heeres_etal2010
%O exported from refbase (https://db.rplab.ru/refbase/show.php?record=620), last updated on Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:43:29 -0600
%X Surface plasmon polaritons (plasmons) have the potential to interface electronic and optical devices. They could prove extremely useful for integrated quantum information processing. Here we demonstrate on-chip electrical detection of single plasmons propagating along gold waveguides. The plasmons are excited using the single-photon emission of an optically emitting quantum dot. After propagating for several micrometers, the plasmons are coupled to a superconducting detector in the near-field. Correlation measurements prove that single plasmons are being detected.
%K optical antennas
%K SSPD
%K Single surface plasmons
%K superconducting detectors
%K semiconductor quantum dots
%K nanophotonics
%R 10.1021/nl903761t
%U https://doi.org/10.1021/nl903761t
%P 661-664