Photonic bandgap plasmonic waveguides
Optics
2015-05-28 v1
Abstract
A novel type of a plasmonic waveguide has been proposed featuring an "open" design that is easy to manufacture, simple to excite and that offers a convenient access to a plasmonic mode. Optical properties of photonic bandgap (PBG) plasmonic waveguides are investigated experimentally by leakage radiation microscopy and numerically using the finite element method confirming photonic bandgap guidance in a broad spectral range. Propagation and localization characteristics of a PBG plasmonic waveguide have been discussed as a function of the wavelength of operation, waveguide core size and the number of ridges in the periodic reflector for fundamental and higher order plasmonic modes of the waveguide.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1104.5222,
title = {Photonic bandgap plasmonic waveguides},
author = {Andrey Markov and Carsten Reinhardt and Bora Ung and Andrey B. Evlyukhin and Wei Cheng and Boris N. Chichkov and Maksim Skorobogatiy},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.5222},
year = {2015}
}