Photon amplification and cavity-polariton-like generation in metallic nanoshells localized in optical cavity.

Abstract

In this paper, I provide nanoshell as a new candidate to achieve the lasing and cavity-polariton-like. Owing to the energy levels in hybridized plasmon modes of nanoshell, I combine the two-level nature of dark and bright plasmon modes of nanoshell with plasmon enhancement of optical second-order nonlinear in metal surface to achieve the lasing of photon, especially under the condition of no population inversion. This provide a new idea to realize nanolaser. Furthermore, using the dipole-dipole interaction between naoshells, the one dimensional array of nanoshells can form new lattice plasmon polaritons similar to exciton-polariton in optical microcavity. Because the nanoshells are much easier to control compared with atoms, the nanoshells arrays (1D and 2D) are good platforms to mimic atomic arrays interacting with cavity photons. This has some potential value in quantum optics of plasmon.