Surface plasmon photonics: from fundamentals to applications

这项提议处于光子学的前沿，致力于研究使用表面等离子激元工作的设备，特别是激光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。开展本文所述的工作将带来重大而深远的进展，等离子激子和广泛的光子学社区以及电信、传感器和医疗保健公司都对此感兴趣。提出的表面等离子激元激光器、光电探测器和调制器有望以非常低的成本实现高性能，这些特性对电信应用，特别是下一代光网络和短距离光通信具有重要意义。我们在表面等离子体生物传感器方面的工作将带来用于检测心肌肌钙蛋白I(心肌损伤或梗死的一种蛋白质标记物)、人类促甲状腺激素(许多加拿大人缺乏这种激素)以及登革病毒的护理点式设备。登革病毒每年影响全球约5亿人，包括部署在登革热高发区的加拿大军事人员。

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.