Single-photon excitation of surface plasmon polaritons

Details Single-photon excitation of surface plasmon polaritons Single-photon excitation of surface plasmon polaritons

2008-09-10

arxiv.org/abs/0809.1766v2

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 190504 (2008)

Physics

Quantum Physics

4 pages, 3 figures, RevTeX4; Accepted version (Phys. Rev. Lett.)

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.190504

We provide the quantum mechanical description of the excitation of surface plasmon polaritons on metal surfaces by single-photons. An attenuated-reflection setup is described for the quantum excitation process in which we find remarkably efficient photon-to-surface plasmon wavepacket-transfer. Using a fully quantized treatment of the fields, we introduce the Hamiltonian for their interaction and study the quantum statistics during transfer with and without losses in the metal.

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