Plasmonic waveguides cladded by hyperbolic metamaterials
Optics
2014-11-17 v2
Abstract
Strongly anisotropic media with hyperbolic dispersion can be used for claddings of plasmonic waveguides. In order to analyze the fundamental properties of such waveguides, we analytically study 1D waveguides arranged of a hyperbolic metamaterial (HMM) in a HMM-Insulator-HMM (HIH) structure. We show that hyperbolic metamaterial claddings give flexibility in designing the properties of HIH waveguides. Our comparative study on 1D plasmonic waveguides reveals that HIH-type waveguides can have a higher performance than MIM or IMI waveguides.
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@article{arxiv.1407.0947,
title = {Plasmonic waveguides cladded by hyperbolic metamaterials},
author = {Satoshi Ishii and Mikhail Y. Shalaginov and Viktoriia E. Babicheva and Alexandra Boltasseva and Alexander V. Kildishev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.0947},
year = {2014}
}