Department of Physics and Astronomy Support: Georgia State University Atlanta, GA 30303-3083, USA US Israel Binational Science Foundation German Science Foundation (DFG) through the Cluster of Excellence Munich Center for Advanced Photonics; EU reintegration grant and the DFG Emmy-Noether program. Nanoplasmonics from Attoseconds‡ to Terahertz Mark Stockman Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30302, USA FRISNO-10 (French-Israeli Symposium on Tuesday, February 10, Nonlinear and Quantum Optics), Web: http://www.phy-astr.gsu.edu/stockman 2009 11:20-11:50 am, p.1 Ein Gedi, Israel E-mail: [email protected] Department of Physics and Astronomy Georgia State University Atlanta, GA 30303-3083, USA CONTENTS •Brief Introduction •SPASER •Attosecond Nanoplasmonic Field Microscope •Time-Reversal Coherent Control of Nanoplasmonic Systems •Adiabatic Nanoconcentration of THz Radiation FRISNO-10 (French-Israeli Symposium on Tuesday, February 10, Nonlinear and Quantum Optics), Web: http://www.phy-astr.gsu.edu/stockman 2009 11:20-11:50 am, p.2 Ein Gedi, Israel E-mail: [email protected] Department of Physics and Astronomy Georgia State University Atlanta, GA 30303-3083, USA MIS’s Collaborators: •David J. Bergman, Department of Physics, Tel Aviv University, Israel •Sophie Brasselet, Institut Fresnel, Marseilles, France •Maxim Durach, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30340, USA •Anastasia Rusina, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30340, USA •Sergey V. Faleev, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA, USA •Takayoshi Kobayashi, University of Tokyo, Japan •Victor Klimov, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA •Ferenc Krausz, Max Plank Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany •Ulf Kleineberg, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany •Matthias Kling, Max Plank Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany •Kuiru Li, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30340, USA •Ivan Larkin, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30340, USA •Keith Nelson, MIT, Boston, USA •Hrvoje Petek, University of Pittsburgh, USA •Peter Nordlander, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA •Misha Ivanov, Femtosecond Science Program, National Research Council of Canada •Paul Corkum, Femtosecond Science Program, National Research Council of Canada •Nikolay Zheludev, University of Southampton, UK •Igor Tsukerman, University of Akron, OH 44325, USA •Joseph Zyss, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, 94235 Cachan, France FRISNO-10 (French-Israeli Symposium on Tuesday, February 10, Nonlinear and Quantum Optics), Web: http://www.phy-astr.gsu.edu/stockman 2009 11:20-11:50 am, p.3 Ein Gedi, Israel E-mail: [email protected] Department of Physics and Astronomy Georgia State University Atlanta, GA 30303-3083, USA FRISNO-10 (French-Israeli Symposium on Tuesday, February 10, Nonlinear and Quantum Optics), Web: http://www.phy-astr.gsu.edu/stockman 2009 11:20-11:50 am, p.4 Ein Gedi,The Israel most beautiful nanoplasmonicE-mail: colors [email protected] of the world: La Sainte Chapelle, Paris Department of Physics and Astronomy Georgia State University Atlanta, GA 30303-3083, USA REUBEN ASHER DAN FRISNO-10 (French-Israeli Symposium on Tuesday, February 10, Nonlinear and Quantum Optics), Web: http://www.phy-astr.gsu.edu/stockman 2009 11:20-11:50 am, p.5 Ein Gedi, Israel E-mail: [email protected] Department of Physics and Astronomy Georgia State University Atlanta, GA 30303-3083, USA Applications of Nanoplasmonics: • Ultrasensitive and express sensing and detection; NSOMs • Coupling of light to semiconductor devices: extraction of light from LEDs and nanostructured antennas for photodetectors and solar cells • Photo- and chemically stable labels and probes for biomedical research and medicine • Nanoplasmonic-based immunoassays; home pregnancy test (in mass production); heart attack test (in clinical trials) and HIV test. • Near perspective: Generation of EUV and XUV pulses • Thermal cancer therapy (stage 3 clinical trials): L. R. Hirsch, R. J. Stafford, J. A. Bankson, S. R. Sershen, B. Rivera, R. E. Price, J. D. Hazle, N. J. Halas, and J. L. West, Nanoshell-Mediated Near-Infrared Thermal Therapy of Tumors under Magnetic Resonance Guidance, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100, 13549-13554 (2003). C. Loo, A. Lowery, N. Halas, J. West, and R. Drezek, Immunotargeted Nanoshells for Integrated Cancer Imaging and Therapy, Nano Lett. 5, 709-711 (2005). FRISNO-10 (French-Israeli Symposium on Tuesday, February 10, Nonlinear and Quantum Optics), Web: http://www.phy-astr.gsu.edu/stockman 2009 11:20-11:50 am, p.6 Ein Gedi, Israel E-mail: [email protected] Department of Physics and Astronomy Georgia State University Atlanta, GA 30303-3083, USA Nanoplasmonics is intrinsically ultrafast: Spectrally, surface plasmon resonances in n (fs) complex systems occupy Best area for a very wide frequency plasmonics band Δω ≈ ω p 2 ≈ 3.5 eV Corresponding rise time of plasmonic (eV) n responses ~ 100 as Surface plasmon relaxation times are in ~10-100 fs range FRISNO-10 (French-Israeli Symposium on Tuesday, February 10, Nonlinear and Quantum Optics), Web: http://www.phy-astr.gsu.edu/stockman 2009 11:20-11:50 am, p.7 Ein Gedi, Israel E-mail: [email protected] Department of Physics and Astronomy Georgia State University Atlanta, GA 30303-3083, USA Quantum Nanoplasmonics: Surface Plasmon Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation (SPASER) D. J. Bergman and M. I. Stockman, Surface Plasmon Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation: Quantum Generation of Coherent Surface Plasmons in Nanosystems, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 027402-1-4 (2003). FRISNO-10 (French-Israeli Symposium on Tuesday, February 10, Nonlinear and Quantum Optics), Web: http://www.phy-astr.gsu.edu/stockman 2009 11:20-11:50 am, p.8 Ein Gedi, Israel E-mail: [email protected] Department of Physics and Astronomy Georgia State University Atlanta, GA 30303-3083, USA FRISNO-10 (French-Israeli Symposium on Tuesday, February 10, Nonlinear and Quantum Optics), Web: http://www.phy-astr.gsu.edu/stockman 2009 11:20-11:50 am, p.9 Ein Gedi, Israel E-mail: [email protected] D. J. Bergman and M. I. Stockman, Surface Plasmon Amplification by Department of Physics and Astronomy StimulatedGeorgia Emission State ofUniversity Radiation: Quantum Generation of Coherent Surface PlasmonsAtlanta, in Nanosystems GA 30303-3083,, Phys. Rev.USA Lett. 90, 027402-1-4 (2003). Avalanche of surface plasmon stimulated emission will develop within an ultrashort time of τ ~ 5 fs α n This dimensionless gain shows how many times the Calculated gain for thin (three net rate of SP emission monolayers of quantum dots) exceeds the rate of their active medium decay due to dissipation FRISNO-10 (French-Israeli Symposium on Tuesday, February 10, Nonlinear and Quantum Optics), Web: http://www.phy-astr.gsu.edu/stockman 2009 11:20-11:50 am, p.10 Ein Gedi, Israel E-mail: [email protected] D. J. Bergman and M. I. Stockman, Surface Plasmon Amplification by Department of Physics and Astronomy StimulatedGeorgia Emission State ofUniversity Radiation: Quantum Generation of Coherent Surface PlasmonsAtlanta, in Nanosystems GA 30303-3083,, Phys. Rev.USA Lett. 90, 027402-1-4 (2003). Eigenmodes with highest yields for the spectral maximum at 1.2 eV =ω =1.15 eV =ω =1.18 eV —wn=1.15 eV —wn=1.18 eV −3 −12 αann==12.,12, fn fn==55.E×10- 3 αann==11.,11, f fnn==3.E3×10- 12 Luminous eigenmode Dark eigenmode 5.E7 7.E7 E E H0L EH0L En ⎛ Vn ⎞ V V ⎛HV€€€€L⎞ ⎜H€€€€⎟L ⎜ m ⎟ ⎝ mm ⎠ ⎝ m ⎠30 30 x z x z 30 30 FRISNO-10 (French-Israeli Symposium on Tuesday, February 10, Nonlinear and Quantum Optics), Web: http://www.phy-astr.gsu.edu/stockman 2009 11:20-11:50 am, p.11 Ein Gedi, Israel E-mail: [email protected] Department of Physics and Astronomy Georgia State University Atlanta, GA 30303-3083, USA FRISNO-10 (French-Israeli Symposium on Tuesday, February 10, Nonlinear and Quantum Optics), Web: http://www.phy-astr.gsu.edu/stockman 2009 11:20-11:50 am, p.12 Ein Gedi, Israel E-mail: [email protected] Department of Physics and Astronomy Georgia State University Atlanta, GA 30303-3083, USA Strong pumping NSP 100 Above the threshold 50 = NSP ω (eV) 20 1.1 1.2 1.3 Pumping at the threshold =ω (eV) NSP 20 1.1 1.2 1.3 =ω (eV) 1.1 1.2 1.3 FRISNO-10 (French-Israeli Symposium on Tuesday, February 10, Nonlinear and Quantum Optics), Web: http://www.phy-astr.gsu.edu/stockman 2009 11:20-11:50 am, p.13 Ein Gedi, Israel E-mail: [email protected] Department of Physics and Astronomy Georgia State University Atlanta, GA 30303-3083, USA FRISNO-10 (French-Israeli Symposium on Tuesday, February 10, Nonlinear and Quantum Optics), Web: http://www.phy-astr.gsu.edu/stockman 2009 11:20-11:50 am, p.14 Ein Gedi, Israel E-mail: [email protected] Department of Physics and Astronomy Georgia State University Atlanta, GA 30303-3083, USA FRISNO-10 (French-Israeli Symposium on Tuesday, February 10, Nonlinear and Quantum Optics), Web: http://www.phy-astr.gsu.edu/stockman 2009 11:20-11:50 am, p.15 Ein Gedi, Israel E-mail: [email protected] M.A. Noginov et al., Observation of Spaser, NanoMeta 2009 Conference, Seefeld, Department of Physics and Astronomy Austria Georgia State University Atlanta, GA 30303-3083, USA FRISNO-10 (French-Israeli Symposium on Tuesday, February 10, Nonlinear and Quantum Optics), Web: http://www.phy-astr.gsu.edu/stockman 2009 11:20-11:50 am, p.16 Ein Gedi, Israel E-mail: [email protected] Department of Physics and Astronomy Georgia State University Atlanta, GA 30303-3083, USA FRISNO-10 (French-Israeli Symposium on Tuesday, February 10, Nonlinear and Quantum Optics), Web: http://www.phy-astr.gsu.edu/stockman