Single-photon excitation of surface plasmon polaritons
arXiv:0809.1766 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.190504
Abstract
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.
4 pages, 3 figures, RevTeX4; Accepted version (Phys. Rev. Lett.)
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