Highly efficient collection for photon emission enhanced by the hybrid photonic-plasmonic cavity.

Abstract

Simultaneously obtaining high photon emission rate and collection efficiency is highly desirable for applications of single photon sources. However, it remains great challenging and is seldom reported before. Here, we demonstrate that highly enhanced radiation of the emitter and efficient collection of the emitted photons can be simultaneously fulfilled in a hybrid photonic-plasmonic cavity which comprises of an Au nanorod dimer and a photonic crystal nanobeam cavity with a collecting waveguide, where the resonance wavelength of nanobeam cavity is red-detuned from that of the Au nanorod dimer. Our calculations show that the spontaneous emission rate of a single emitter can be enhanced by 5060 -folds, correspondingly, the far-field radiation efficiency and collection efficiency into a dielectric waveguide reaches ~97% and ~67%, respectively. The proposed mechanism paves the way towards the practical applications in ultra-bright on-chip single photon sources and plasmon-based nanolasers.