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Tuning the Effective PT-Phase of Plasmonic Eigenmodes

Optics 2019-11-27 v1

Abstract

We experimentally observe an effective PT-phase transition through the exceptional point in a hybrid plasmonic-dielectric waveguide system. Transmission experiments reveal fundamental changes in the underlying Eigenmode interactions as the environmental refractive index is tuned, which can be unambiguously attributed to a crossing through the plasmonic exceptional point. These results extend the design opportunities for tuneable non-Hermitian physics to plasmonic systems.

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@article{arxiv.1907.04545,
  title  = {Tuning the Effective PT-Phase of Plasmonic Eigenmodes},
  author = {Alessandro Tuniz and Torsten Wieduwilt and Markus A. Schmidt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.04545},
  year   = {2019}
}
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