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Weyl semimetals have recently attracted extensive attention due to their anomalous band structure manifested by topological properties that lead to some unusual and unique physical properties. We investigate novel features of surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-06 S. Oskoui Abdol , A. Soltani Vala , B. Abdollahipour

In nanoscale photonic devices, the demand for multifunctionality from metasurface 2D optics increases rapidly. To explore fine-tuning in the design metric, we reinvestigated the trapezoid shape copper metasurface with Finite-Difference…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-10 Hosna Sultana

Channeling surface plasmon-polaritons to control their propagation direction is of the utmost importance for future optoelectronic devices. Here, we develop an effective-index method to describe and characterize the properties of 2D…

Recently, guiding electromagnetic surface waves without sacrificing scattering losses through paths that have arbitrary shape bumps has gained a lot of interest due to its wealth of advantages in modern photonics and plasmonics devices. In…

In this article, an analytical model is proposed for the study of Transverse-electric (TE) surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) in nonlinear multi-layer graphene-based waveguides. Each graphene sheet has been located between two different…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-06 Mohammad Bagher Heydari

This paper presents an analytical study of TM-polarized surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) in nonlinear multi-layer structures containing graphene sheets. In the general structure, each graphene sheet has been sandwiched between two…

Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) are central to application areas such as sensing, energy harvesting, and nanoscale optics, and are typically excited via spatial structuring -- an approach lacking dynamic control. We demonstrate that…

The tailoring of plasmonic near-fields is central to the field of nanophotonics. The detailed knowledge of the field distribution is crucial for a design and fabrication of plasmonic sensors, detectors, photovoltaics, plasmon-based cicuits,…

Optics · Physics 2021-05-05 Aleksandra Sierant , Benedykt R. Jany , Tomasz Kawalec

In this work, we compare the performance of plasmonic waveguide integrated stub resonators based on 2D metal-dielectric-metal and 3D slot waveguide (SWG) geometries. We show that scattering matrix theory can be extended to 3D devices, and…

Optics · Physics 2017-01-19 Solmaz Naghizadeh , Sukru Ekin Kocabas

Surface plasmon polaritons (SPP or SP) are electromagnetic waves propagating along metal dielectric interfaces and existing over a wide range of frequencies. They have become popular because of their sub-wavelength confinement and the…

Optics · Physics 2012-11-08 Vasily V. Temnov

Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) are coherent electromagnetic surface waves trapped on an insulator-conductor interface. The SPPs decay exponentially along the propagation due to conductor losses, restricting the SPPs propagation length to…

Optics · Physics 2015-12-11 M. Mattheakis , T. Oikonomou , M. I. Molina , G. P. Tsironis

The suite of highly confined polaritons supported by two-dimensional (2D) materials constitutes a versatile platform for nano-optics, offering the means to channel light on deep-subwavelength scales. Graphene, in particular, has attracted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 T. P. Rasmussen , P. A. D. Gonçalves , Sanshui Xiao , Sebastian Hofferberth , N. Asger Mortensen , Joel D. Cox

We study a surface plasmon polariton mode that is strongly confined in the transverse direction and propagates along a periodically nanostructured metal-dielectric interface. We show that the wavelength of this mode is determined by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-30 E. D. Chubchev , I. A. Nechepurenko , A. V. Dorofeenko , A. P. Vinogradov , A. A. Lisyansky

The planar interface of a metal and a hyperbolic, dielectric, structurally chiral material can support the propagation of none, one, or multiple surface-plasmon-polariton (SPP) waves, at a specified frequency and along a specified direction…

Optics · Physics 2014-06-23 Akhlesh Lakhtakia , Muhammad Faryad

Optical plasmon-polariton modes confined in both transverse dimensions to significantly less than a wavelength are exhibited in open waveguides structured as sharp metal wedges. The analysis reveals two distinctive modes corresponding to a…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 Eyal Feigenbaum , Meir Orenstein

We use coupled-mode theory to describe the scattering of a surface-plasmon polariton (SPP) from a square wave grating (Bragg grating) of finite extension written on the surface of either a metal-dielectric interface or a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 A. J. Chaves , N. M. R. Peres

We review the principle and methodology of leakage radiation microscopy (LRM) applied to surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs). Therefore we first analyse in detail the electromagnetic theory of leaky SPP waves. We show that LRM is a versatile…

Recent works dealt with the optical transmission on arrays of subwavelength holes perforated in a thick metallic film. We have performed simulations which quantitatively agree with experimental results and which unambiguously evidence that…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Lalanne , J. C. Rodier , J. P. Hugonin

This paper shows how to analyze plasmonic metal-insulator-metal waveguides using the full modal structure of these guides. The analysis applies to all frequencies, particularly including the near infrared and visible spectrum, and to a wide…

Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) confined along metal-dielectric interface have attracted a relevant interest in the area of ultracompact photonic circuits, photovoltaic devices and other applications due to their strong field confinement…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-06-13 Francesco Bonanno , Giacomo Capizzi , Grazia Lo Sciuto , Christian Napoli , Giuseppe Pappalardo , Emiliano Tramontana