title: Confined Tamm plasmon lasers.
abstract: We demonstrate that confined Tamm plasmon modes can be advantageously exploited for the realization of new kind of metal/semiconductor lasers. Laser emission is demonstrated for Tamm structures with various diameters of the metallic disks which provide the confinement. A reduction of the threshold with the size is observed. The competition between the acceleration of the spontaneous emission and the increase of the losses leads to an optimal size, which is in good agreement with calculations.
authors.affiliation: Institut Lumière Matière, Université de Lyon , UMR5306 Université Lyon 1-CNRS, 69622 Villeurbanne, France.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Symonds
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lheureux
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Hugonin
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Greffet
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Laverdant
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Brucoli
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lemaitre
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Senellart
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bellessa