Surface plasmon photonics: from fundamentals to applications

该提案处于光子学的前沿，致力于研究使用表面等离子体的设备，特别是激光和宇称时间对称结构，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。开展本文所描述的工作将产生重大而深远的进步，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兴趣。提出的表面等离子体激光器、光电探测器和调制器有望以极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导致用于检测心脏肌钙蛋白I（心肌损伤或梗死的蛋白质标志物），人类促甲状腺激素（许多加拿大人缺乏这种激素）和登革热病毒的护理点设备，登革热病毒每年折磨全球约5亿人，包括部署在登革热流行地区的加拿大军事人员。****在这个项目期间，5名博士生将完成他们的研究，5名新生将开始。学生将被整合到一个富有成效的、协作的和多学科的团队中。申请人的小组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、光子器件和生物传感器实验表征等方面的培训。学生将直接与我们的工业、国际和医学合作伙伴互动。他们将获得研究生学位，并获得立即有用并受到工业界和学术界重视的理论和实验技能。****新知识将在顶级期刊、会议和专利中传播，将形成新的工业伙伴关系，并可能创建一家新公司，以确保向私营部门转让技术。这些研究成果和高素质的人才将引起加拿大高科技产业的高度兴趣，特别是对加拿大创新议程具有战略意义的电子和光电子产业。拟议的研究与加拿大政府的研发战略非常吻合，特别是与“先进制造”研究重点中的“纳米技术”重点领域、“信息和通信技术”研究重点中的“通信网络和服务”重点领域以及“健康和生命科学”研究重点中的“生物医学工程和医疗技术”重点领域相吻合。

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.