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The field of plasmonics offers a route to control light fields with metallic nanostructures through the excitation of Surface Plasmon Polaritons (SPPs). These surface waves, bound to a metal dielectric interface, tightly confine…

Tunable orbit angular momentum (OAM) of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) is theoretically studied with appropriately designed metasurfaces. By controlling both the orientation angle and spatial position of nano aperture array on an…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-22 Qilong Tan , Qinghua Guo , Hongchao Liu , Xuguang Huang , Shuang Zhang

The ability to control propagation of electromagnetic guided modes lies at the heart of integrated nanophotonics. Surface plasmon-polaritons are a class of guided modes which can be employed in integrated optical systems. Here, we present a…

Optics · Physics 2016-08-24 Anton I. Ignatov , Igor A. Nechepurenko , Denis G. Baranov

We propose controlling the angular and spectral distribution of hard x-ray emission by entangling x-ray photons with ultraviolet surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) whose dispersion is engineered by a metal-dielectric multilayer on a…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-29 H. Aknin , Y. Klein , S. Shwartz

Controlling the directionality of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) has been widely studied, while the direction of SPPs was always switched by orthogonal polarizations in the reported methods. Here, we present a scheme to control the…

Optics · Physics 2018-07-30 Hailong Zhou , Jinran Qie , Jianji Dong , Xinliang Zhang

We study and actively control the coherent properties of Surface Plasmon Polaritons (SPPs) optically exited on a nano-hole array. Amplitude and phase of the optical excitation are externally controlled via a digital spatial light modulator…

Optics · Physics 2013-04-05 B. Gjonaj , J. Aulbach , P. M. Johnson , A. P. Mosk , L. Kuipers , A. Lagendijk

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

We illustrate that the surface plasmon polariton (SPP) excitation through the prism coupling method is fundamentally limited by destructive interference of spatial light components. We propose that the destructive interference can be…

Optics · Physics 2014-06-11 Zhichao Ruan , Hui Wu , Min Qiu , Shanhui Fan

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…

We propose a plasmonic device consisting of a concentric ring grating acting as an efficient tool for directional launching and detection of surface plasmon-polaritons (SPPs). Numerical simulations and optical characterizations are used to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-05 N. Rahbany , W. Geng , R. Salas-Montiel , S. de la Cruz , E. R. Méndez , S. Blaize , R. Bachelot , C. Couteau

We have observed laser-like emission of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) decoupled to the glass prism in an attenuated total reflection setup. SPPs were excited by optically pumped molecules in a polymeric film deposited on the top of the…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. A. Noginov , G. Zhu , M. F. Mayy , B. A. Ritzo , N. Noginova , V. A. Podolskiy

Interference patterns of surface plasmon polaritons(SPPs) are observed in the extraordinary optical transmission through subwavelength holes in optically thick metal plate. It is found that the phase of incident light can be transferred to…

Transformation optics has recently attracted extensive interest, since it provides a novel design methodology for manipulating light at will. Although transformation optics in principle embraces all forms of electromagnetic phenomena on all…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-18 Yongmin Liu , Thomas Zentgraf , Guy Bartal , Xiang Zhang

The hybrid light-matter character of exciton-polaritons gives rise to distinct polariton parametric scattering (PPS) process, which holds promise for frontier applications in polaritonic quantum devices. However, the stable excitation and…

Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) are surface-bound waves at metal-dielectric interfaces that exhibit strong out-of-plane field confinement, a key feature for applications is nano-scale sensing and imaging. However, this advantage is offset…

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…

Interference between light waves is one of the widely known phenomena in physics, which is widely used in modern optics, ranging from precise detection at the nanoscale to gravitational-wave observation. Akin to light, both classical and…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-02 Rong Huang , Weiwei Luo , Wei Wu , Mengxin Ren , Xinzheng Zhang , Wei Cai , Jingjun Xu

The diffraction of a plane wave by a magneto-optical cavity located on a metal interface is investigated theoretically. We show that the excitation of localized eigenmodes of the cavity allows one to efficiently excite the surface plasmon…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-18 Dmitry A. Bykov , Leonid L. Doskolovich

Multiple p- and s-polarized compound surface plasmon-polariton (SPP) waves at a fixed frequency can be guided by a structure consisting of a metal layer sandwiched between a homogeneous isotropic dielectric (HID) material and a periodic…

We theoretically demonstrate coherent control over propagation of surface plasmon polaritons(SPP), at both telecommunication and visible wavelengths, on a metallic surface adjacent to quantum coherence (phaseonium) medium composed of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Pankaj K. Jha , Xiaobo Yin , Xiang Zhang
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