Journal
NANO LETTERS
Volume 10, Issue 11, Pages 4566-4570Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nl102568m
Keywords
Quantum optics; surface plasmons; nanodiamond; near-field optics; leakage radiation microscopy
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- Agence Nationale de la Recherche, France
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We demonstrate deterministic launching of propagative quantum surface-plasmon polaritons at freely chosen positions on gold plasmonic receptacles. This is achieved by using as a plasmon launcher a near-held scanning optical source made of a diamond nanocrystal with two nitrogen-vacancy color-center occupancy. Our demonstration relies on leakage-radiation microscopy of a thin homogeneous gold film and on near-field optical microscopy of a nanostructured thick gold film. Our work paves the way to future fundamental studies and applications in quantum plasmonics that require an accurate positioning of single-plasmon sources and may open a new branch in plasmonics and nanophotonics, namely scanning quantum plasmonics.
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