Fabrication and optical characterization of long-range surface-plasmon-polariton waveguides in the NIR
Optics
2016-07-04 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Quantum Physics
Abstract
We experimentally demonstrate the propagation of long-range surface plasmon-polaritons in a nobel metal stripe waveguide at an optical wavelength of 780 nm. To minimize propagation damping the lithographically structured waveguide is produced from a thin gold stripe embedded in a dielectric polymer. Our waveguide geometry supports a symmetric fundamental and anti-symmetric first order mode. For the fundamental mode we measure a propagation loss of dB/mm, in good agreement with numerical simulations using a vectorial eigenmode solver. Our results are a promising starting point for coupling fluorescence of individual solid state quantum emitters to integrated plasmonic waveguide structures.
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@article{arxiv.1607.00224,
title = {Fabrication and optical characterization of long-range surface-plasmon-polariton waveguides in the NIR},
author = {Markus Weber and Johannes Trapp and Florian Boehm and Peter Fischer and Marion Kraus and Toshiyuki Tashima and Lars Liebermeister and Philipp Altpeter and Harald Weinfurter},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.00224},
year = {2016}
}