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Optical Investigation Of A Hybrid System Of Plasmonic Structures And Semiconductor Quantum Dots, Matthew B. Seaton

Theses and Dissertations

Next generation integrated nanophotonic devices must fabricate large numbers of nanoscaled light coupling structures onto a single wafer: emitters such as quantum dots, resonators such as nanocavities and plasmonic nanoparticles, photonic crystal and nano-plasmonic waveguides, among others. Before precision planning and engi- neering will be possible a thorough understanding of the interaction between these structures must be documented. We present in this work an investigation of the interaction between quantum dots and plasmonic structures in the weak coupling regime. We found that surface plasmon supporting silver structures placed about 100nm from InGaAs quantum dots enabled an all optical polarization dependent …