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Design of Plasmon Cavities for Solid-State Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics Applications Yiyang Gong, Jelena Vuˇckovi´c 6 0 Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 0 2 February 1, 2008 v o N Abstract 5 2 Research on photonic cavities with low mode volume and high quality factor garners much attention because of 3 applications ranging from optoelectronics to cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED). We propose a cavity based v 9 on surface plasmon modes confined by metallic distributed Bragg reflectors. We analyze the structure with Finite 6 1 Difference Time Domain simulations and obtain modes with quality factor 1000 (including losses from metals at 9 low temperatures), reduced mode volume relative to photonic crystal cavities, Purcell enhancements of hundreds, 0 6 and even the capability of enabling cavity QED strong coupling. 0 / h The modification of the spontaneous emission (SE) rate of emitters has been a pressing topic in recent research. p t- By enhancing or suppressing emission, we could increase the efficiencies of photon sources, reduce laser threshold, n a and tailor sources for cavity cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) applications such as quantum computation and u q quantum communications. Some researchers have demonstrated the enhancement of emission rates (Purcell effect) in : v solid-state by modifying the local density of optical states with photonic crystal (PC) cavities [1]. However, such works i X face limitations in the mode volume of the cavity. One implementation that could produce smaller