{
  "id": "1905.06321",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2019-05-15T17:53:35.000Z",
  "updated": "2019-05-15T17:53:35.000Z",
  "title": "Hybrid plasmonic waveguide coupling of photons from a single molecule",
  "authors": [
    "Samuele Grandi",
    "Michael P. Nielsen",
    "Javier Cambiasso",
    "Sebastien Boissier",
    "Kyle D. Major",
    "Christopher Reardon",
    "Thomas F. Krauss",
    "Rupert F. Oulton",
    "E. A. Hinds",
    "Alex S. Clark"
  ],
  "comment": "13 page article. Comments welcome",
  "categories": [
    "quant-ph",
    "physics.optics"
  ],
  "abstract": "We demonstrate the emission of photons from a single molecule into a hybrid gap plasmon waveguide (HGPW). Crystals of anthracene, doped with dibenzoterrylene (DBT), are grown on top of the waveguides. We investigate a single DBT molecule coupled to the plasmonic region of one of the guides, and determine its in-plane orientation, excited state lifetime and saturation intensity. The molecule emits light into the guide, which is remotely out-coupled by a grating. The second-order auto-correlation and cross-correlation functions show that the emitter is a single molecule and that the light emerging from the grating comes from that molecule. The coupling efficiency is found to be $\\beta_{WG}=11.6(1.5)\\%$. This type of structure is promising for building new functionality into quantum-photonic circuits, where localised regions of strong emitter-guide coupling can be interconnected by low-loss dielectric guides.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2019-05-15T17:53:35.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "hybrid plasmonic waveguide coupling",
      "single molecule",
      "hybrid gap plasmon waveguide",
      "low-loss dielectric guides",
      "single dbt molecule"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 13,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}