Highly efficient interfacing of guided plasmons and photons in nanowires
Quantum Physics
2016-09-21 v1
Abstract
Successful exploitations of strongly confined surface plasmon-polaritons critically rely on their efficient and rapid conversion to lossless channels. We demonstrate a simple, robust, and broad-band butt-coupling technique for connecting a metallic nanowire and a dielectric nanofiber. Conversion efficiencies above 95% in the visible and close to 100% in the near infrared can be achieved with realistic parameters. Moreover, by combining butt-coupling with nanofocusing, we propose a broad-band high-throughput near-field optical microscope.
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@article{arxiv.0906.3807,
title = {Highly efficient interfacing of guided plasmons and photons in nanowires},
author = {Xue-Wen Chen and Vahid Sandoghdar and Mario Agio},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.3807},
year = {2016}
}
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