title: Nanoantenna for Electrical Generation of Surface Plasmon Polaritons.
abstract: Light emission by inelastic tunneling has been known for many years. Recently, this technique has been used to generate surface plasmons using a scanning tunneling microscope tip. The emission process suffers from a very low efficiency lower than a photon in 10^{4} electrons. We introduce a resonant plasmonic nanoantenna that allows both enhancing the power conversion to surface plasmon polaritons by more than 2 orders of magnitude and narrowing the emission spectrum. The physics of the emission process is analyzed in terms of local density of states and the efficiency of the nanoantenna to radiate surface plasmon polaritons.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Institut d'Optique Graduate School, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, 91127 Palaiseau, France.
authors.forename: Florian
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Bigourdan
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Institut d'Optique Graduate School, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, 91127 Palaiseau, France.
authors.forename: Jean-Paul
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Hugonin
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Institut d'Optique Graduate School, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, 91127 Palaiseau, France.
authors.forename: Francois
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Marquier
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Institut d'Optique Graduate School, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, 91127 Palaiseau, France.
authors.forename: Christophe
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sauvan
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Institut d'Optique Graduate School, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, 91127 Palaiseau, France.
authors.forename: Jean-Jacques
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Greffet