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Metal-dielectric interfaces of various geometries are fundamental photonic material platforms for surface plasmons. Surface plasmon polaritons and localized surface plasmons are two surface plasmon modes that are excited on planar and…

Long-lived and ultra-confined plasmons in two-dimensional (2D) electron systems may provide a sub-wavelength diagnostic tool to investigate localized dielectric, electromagnetic, and pseudo-electromagnetic perturbations. In this Article, we…

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We present a quantum mechanical approach to calculate broadening of plasmonic resonances in metallic nanostructures due to collisions of electrons with the surface of the structure. The approach is applicable if the characteristic size of…

We demonstrate that the introduction of a subwavelength periodic modulation into a metallic structure strongly modifies the guiding characteristics of the surface plasmon modes supported by the system. Moreover, it is also shown how a new…

Here we develop a general theory of mode transformation (diffraction) at the flat transverse boundary between cold magnetized electron plasma and isotropic vacuum-like medium inside a circular waveguide. The obtained results can be also…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-05-03 Sergey N. Galyamin

The development of nanoplasmonic devices, such as plasmonic circuits and metamaterial superlenses in the visible to ultraviolet frequency range, is hampered by the lack of low-loss plasmonic media. Recently, strong plasmonic response was…

We study bandstructure properties of periodic optical systems composed of lossy and intrinsically dispersive materials. To this end, we develop an analytical framework based on adjoint modes of a lossy periodic electromagnetic system and…

Optics · Physics 2018-03-19 Christian Wolff , Kurt Busch , N. Asger Mortensen

We report theoretical evidence that bulk nonlinear materials weakly interacting with highly localized plasmonic modes in ultra-sub-wavelength metallic nanostructures can lead to nonlinear effects at the single plasmon level in the visible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-27 Filippo Alpeggiani , Stefania D'Agostino , Daniele Sanvitto , Dario Gerace

We present a refractometric sensor realized as a stack of metallic gratings with subwavelength features and embedded within a low-index dielectric medium. Light is strongly confined through funneling mechanisms and excites resonances that…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-06 Mahmoud H. Elshorbagy , Alexander Cuadrado , Javier Alda

The fluid theory of plasmas is extended to include the properties of electron spin. The linear theory of waves in a magnetized plasma is presented, and it is shown that the spin effects causes a change of the magnetic permeability.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Brodin , M. Marklund

We analyze nonlinear effects in optically driven arrays of nonlinear metallic nanoparticles. We demonstrate that such plasmonic systems are characterized by a bistable response, and they can support the propagation of dissipative switching…

Optics · Physics 2012-06-01 Roman E. Noskov , Pavel A. Belov , Yuri S. Kivshar

We show that interference can be the principle of operation of an all-optical switch and other nanoscale plasmonic interference devices (PIDs). The optical response of two types of planar plasmonic waveguides is studied theoretically: bent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-27 A. V. Malyshev , V. A. Malyshev , J. Knoester

In the presence of external off-resonance and circularly-polarized irradiation, we have derived a many-body formalism and performed a detailed numerical analysis for both the conduction and optical currents in $\alpha-\mc{T}_3$ lattices.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Andrii Iurov , Liubov Zhemchuzhna , Dipendra Dahal , Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang

The matter density field exhibits a nearly lognormal probability density distribution (PDF) after entering into the nonlinear regime. Recently, it has been shown that the shape of the power spectrum of a logarithmically transformed density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Xin Wang , Mark Neyrinck , István Szapudi , Alex Szalay , Xuelei Chen , Julien Lesgourgues , Antonio Riotto , Martin Sloth

An electron beam traversing a structured plasmonic field is shown to undergo diffraction with characteristic angular patterns of both elastic and inelastic outgoing electron components. In particular, a plasmonic {\it grating} (e.g., a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 F. Javier Garcia de Abajo , Brett Barwick , Fabrizio Carbone

We analyze the plasmonic modes of a metal nanoparticle circular array. Closed form solutions to the eigenmode problem are given. For each polarization, the plasmonic mode with the highest quality is found to be an antiphase mode. We found…

Optics · Physics 2016-07-29 Kin Hung Fung , C. T. Chan

Plasmonic distributed-feedback lasers based on a two-dimensional periodic array of metallic nanostructures are the main candidate for nanoscale sources of coherent electromagnetic field. Strong localization of the electromagnetic field and…

We present an analytical description of the nonlocal optical response of plasmonic nanowire metamaterials that enable negative refraction, subwavelength light manipulation, and emission lifetime engineering. We show that dispersion of…

Optics · Physics 2014-01-13 Brian M. Wells , Anatoly V. Zayats , Viktor A. Podolskiy

Recent experiments with film-coupled nanoparticles suggest that the impact of spatial dispersion is enhanced in plasmonic structures where high wavevector guided modes are excited. More advanced descriptions of the optical response of…

Plasmon and polariton modes are derived for an ideal semi-infinite (half-space) plasma and an ideal plasma slab by using a general, unifying procedure, based on equations of motion, Maxwell's equations and suitable boundary conditions.…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Apostol , G. Vaman