title: High-polarization-discriminating infrared detection using a single quantum well sandwiched in plasmonic micro-cavity.
abstract: Polarimetric imaging has proved its value in medical diagnostics, bionics, remote sensing, astronomy, and in many other wide fields. Pixel-level solid monolithically integrated polarimetric imaging photo-detectors are the trend for infrared polarimetric imaging devices. For better polarimetric imaging performance the high polarization discriminating detectors are very much critical. Here we demonstrate the high infrared light polarization resolving capabilities of a quantum well (QW) detector in hybrid structure of single QW and plasmonic micro-cavity that uses QW as an active structure in the near field regime of plasmonic effect enhanced cavity, in which the photoelectric conversion in such a plasmonic micro-cavity has been realized. The detector's extinction ratio reaches 65 at the wavelength of 14.7 μm, about 6 times enhanced in such a type of pixel-level polarization long wave infrared photodetectors. The enhancement mechanism is attributed to artificial plasmonic modulation on optical propagation and distribution in the plasmonic micro-cavities.
authors.affiliation: National Laboratory for Infrared Physics, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 500 Yutian Road, Shanghai 200083, P. R. China and Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information &Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Qian
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: National Laboratory for Infrared Physics, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 500 Yutian Road, Shanghai 200083, P. R. China and Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information &Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China.
authors.forename: ZhiFeng
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: National Laboratory for Infrared Physics, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 500 Yutian Road, Shanghai 200083, P. R. China and Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information &Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Ning
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: National Laboratory for Infrared Physics, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 500 Yutian Road, Shanghai 200083, P. R. China and Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information &Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China.
authors.forename: XiaoShuang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: National Laboratory for Infrared Physics, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 500 Yutian Road, Shanghai 200083, P. R. China and Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information &Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China.
authors.forename: PingPing
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: National Laboratory for Infrared Physics, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 500 Yutian Road, Shanghai 200083, P. R. China and Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information &Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China.
authors.forename: XueChu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.affiliation: National Laboratory for Infrared Physics, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 500 Yutian Road, Shanghai 200083, P. R. China and Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information &Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Lu