Physics – Optics
Scientific paper
2009-09-17
Physics
Optics
12 pages, 8 figures
Scientific paper
We develop a self-consistent finite element method to study spontaneous emission at nanoscale proximity of plasmonic waveguides. In the model, it is assumed that only one guided mode is dominatingly excited by the quantum emitter. With such one dominating mode assumption, the cross section of the plasmonic waveguide can be arbitrary. We apply our numerical method to calculate the coupling of a quantum emitter to a cylindrical nanowire and a rectangular waveguide, and compare the cylindrical nanowire to previous work valid in quasistatic approximation. The fraction of the energy coupled to the plasmonic mode can be calculated exactly, which can be used to determine the single optical plasmon generation efficiency for a quantum emitter. For a gold nanowire we observe agreement with the quasistatic approximation for radii below 20 nm, but for larger radii the total decay rate is up to 10 times larger. For the rectangular waveguide we estimate an optimized value for the spontaneous emission factor \beta of up to 80%.
Chen Yuntian
Gregersen Niels
Lodahl Peter
Mork Jesper
Nielsen Torben Roland
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