Surface plasmon photonics: from fundamentals to applications

该提案处于光子学的前沿，并致力于研究使用表面等离子体的设备，特别是激光器和奇偶时间对称结构，高速光电探测器和调制器以及用于疾病检测和护理点应用的生物传感器。进行本文所述的工作将导致重大和深远的进步，对等离子体和广泛的光子学社区以及电信，传感器和医疗保健公司都有意义。提出的表面等离子体激元激光器、光电探测器和调制器具有以非常低的成本实现高性能的前景，这些属性对于电信应用，特别是下一代光网络和短距离光通信具有重大意义。我们在表面等离子体生物传感器方面的工作将导致用于检测心肌肌钙蛋白I（心肌损伤或梗死的蛋白质标记物），人类促甲状腺激素（许多加拿大人患有缺乏症）和登革热病毒的即时护理设备，该病毒每年困扰全球约5亿人，包括部署在登革热流行地区的加拿大军事人员。 在此期间，该计划，5博士。学生将完成学业，5名新生将开始。学生将融入一个富有成效的，协作和多学科的团队。申请人的团体对来自许多学科的学生有吸引力-工程（EE，物理，化学，生物医学）和科学（物理，生物化学）。学生将接受建模，设计，洁净室制造以及光子器件和生物传感器实验特性的培训。学生将直接与我们的工业，国际和医疗合作者互动。他们将获得研究生学位，获得理论和实验技能，这些技能立即有用，并受到工业界和学术界的重视。 新知识将在顶级期刊、会议和专利中传播，新的工业伙伴关系将形成，并可能创建一家新公司，以确保向私营部门转让技术。研究成果和产生的高素质人才将引起加拿大高技术产业的高度兴趣，特别是对加拿大创新议程具有战略重要性的电子和光子产业。拟议的研究与加拿大政府的R&D战略非常一致，特别是与“先进制造”研究优先事项的“纳米技术”重点领域，“信息和通信技术”研究优先事项的“通信网络和服务”重点领域，以及“健康和生命科学”研究优先事项的“生物医学工程和医疗技术”重点领域。

This proposal is at the frontiers of photonics and devoted to the investigation of devices operating with surface plasmons, particularly lasers and parity time symmetric structures, high-speed photodetectors and modulators, and biosensors for disease detection and point-of-care applications. Conducting the work described herein will result in significant and far-reaching advances, of interest to the plasmonics and broad photonics communities, and to telecom, sensor and healthcare companies. The surface plasmon lasers, photodetectors and modulators proposed hold the promise of high-performance at very low cost, attributes that are of significant interest for telecom applications, particularly next-generation optical networks and short-reach optical communications. Our work on surface plasmon biosensors will lead to point-of-care devices for the detection of cardiac troponin I (a protein marker for myocardial injury or infarction), for human thyroid stimulating hormone (for which many Canadians suffer from a deficiency), and for the Dengue virus which afflicts about 500M people globally each year including Canadian military personnel deployed in Dengue prevalent regions. Over the duration of this program, 5 Ph.D. students will complete their studies and 5 new students will begin. The students will be integrated into a productive, collaborative and multidisciplinary team. The applicant’s group is attractive to students from many disciplines - engineering (EE, Phys, Chem, Biomed) and science (Phys, Biochem). The students will receive training on the modelling, design, fabrication in cleanrooms, and experimental characterisation of photonic devices and biosensors. The students will interact directly with our industrial, international and medical collaborators. They will obtain their graduate degrees having acquired theoretical and experimental skills which are immediately useful and valued by industry and academia. New knowledge will be disseminated in top journals, conferences, and in patents, new industrial partnerships will be formed, and potentially a new company created to ensure the transfer of technologies to the private sector. The research outcomes and the highly qualified personnel produced will be of high interest to Canadian high-technology industry, particularly to the electronics and photonics industries, which are of strategic importance to Canada’s innovation agenda. The proposed research aligns very well with the Government of Canada’s Strategy on R&D, specifically with the “Nanotechnology” focus area of the “Advanced Manufacturing” research priority, the “Communications networks and services” focus area of the “Information and Communications Technologies” research priority, and the “Biomedical engineering and medical technologies” focus area of the “Health and Life Sciences” research priority.