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Spoof surface modes on nanostructured metallic surfaces are known to have tailorable dispersion dependent on the geometric characteristics of the periodic pattern. Here we examine the spoof plasmon dispersion on an isolated grating and a…

Optics · Physics 2014-05-19 P. S. Davids , F. Intravaia , D. A. R. Dalvit

Recently, light-matter interaction has been vastly expanded as a control tool for inducing and enhancing many emergent non-equilibrium phenomena. However, conventional schemes for exploring such light-induced phenomena rely on uniform and…

Tamm polaritons (TPs) are formed at the interface between two semi-infinite periodic dielectric structures (Bragg mirrors) or other reflectors. Contrary to usual surface polaritons, TPs exist inside the "light cone", even though their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-29 Jorge M. S. S. Silva , Mikhail I. Vasilevskiy

The canonical problem of the propagation of surface-plasmon-polariton (SPP) waves localized to the planar interface of a metal and a sculptured nematic thin film (SNTF) that is periodically nonhomogeneous along the direction normal to the…

Optics · Physics 2010-07-13 Muhammad Faryad , John A. Polo , Akhlesh Lakhtakia

The concepts of spoof surface plasmon polaritons and adiabatic field compression are employed to design metallic near-field probes that allow guiding and focusing of mid-infrared wavelength electromagnetic radiation and provides…

Transmission spectra of metallic films or membranes perforated by arrays of subwavelength slits or holes have been widely interpreted as resonance absorption by surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs). Alternative interpretations involving…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Gay , O. Alloschery , B. Vairis de Lesegno , J. Weiner , H. J. Lezec

We analytically examine propagation of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) at a thin metallic film between glass substrate and electromagnetically-induced-transparency (EIT) medium. High-precision and high-resolution in frequency domain…

We investigate unusual surface plasmons polariton (SPP) propagation and light-matter interactions in ultrathin black phosphorus (BP) films, a 2D material that exhibits exotic electrical and physical properties due to its extremely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 D. Correas-Serrano , J. S. Gomez-Diaz , A. Alvarez Melcon , Andrea Alù

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

Using numerical simulations, here we demonstrate that a single sheet of graphene with properly designed inhomogeneous, nonuniform conductivity distributions can act as a convex lens for focusing and collimating the transverse-magnetic (TM)…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-30 Ashkan Vakil , Nader Engheta

Enhanced beam shifts mediated by surface plasmon resonance (SPR) at metal-dielectric interfaces have been widely investigated. However, research on the associated Imbert-Fedorov or spin Hall shifts, driven by the spin-orbit interaction of…

We study the propagation of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) on a metal surface which hosts a thin film of a liquid dielectric. The ohmic losses, that are inherently present due to the coupling of SPPs to conductors' electron plasma,…

Optics · Physics 2018-06-20 Shimon Rubin , Yeshaiahu Fainman

Multiple surface plasmon-polariton (SPP) waves excited at the interface of a homogeneous isotropic metal and a chiral sculptured thin film (STF) impregnated with silver nanoparticles were theoretically assessed for the…

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…

The spin-dependent routing of surface plasmons on metal by use of mirror symmetric periodic metasurface is presented and analyzed. We incorporate the intrinsic transverse spin angular momentum of the plasmonic wave in order to efficiently…

Optics · Physics 2018-10-24 Matan Revah , Andre Yaroshevsky , Yuri Gorodetski

Cavity polaritons have been shown these last years to exhibit a rich variety of non-linear behaviors which could be used in new polariton based devices. Operation in the strong coupling regime under electrical injection remains a key step…

Ultrafast excitation of non-equilibrium carriers under intense pulses offer unique opportunities for controlling optical properties of semiconductor materials. In this work, we propose a scheme for ultrafast generation of surface plasmon…

We present two-dimensional plasmonic Doppler grating (PDG) for broadband azimuthal angle-resolved nanophotonic applications. The PDG consists of a set of non-concentric circular rings mimicking the wavefronts of a moving point source that…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-04-18 Kel-Meng See , Fan-Cheng Lin , Jer-Shing Huang

Plasmon-polariton behavior on the surfaces of constant negative curvature is considered. Analytical solutions for the eigenfrequencies and eigenfunctions are found, which describe resonant behavior of metal nanotips and nanoholes. These…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Igor I. Smolyaninov , Quirino Balzano , Christopher C. Davis

We investigate the dispersion properties of the acoustic surface waves on surface of elastic metamaterials. With an analytical approach, we show that unconventional acoustic surface waves, with dispersion behaviors very similar to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-01-06 Ke Deng , Zhaojian He , Yiqun Ding , Heping Zhao , Zhengyou Liu