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Excitation of multiple surface plasmon-polaritons(SPPs) by an equichiral sculptured thin film with a metal layer defect was studied theoretically in the Sarid configuration, using the transfer matrix method. Multiple SPP modes were…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-13 SH. Hosseininezhad , F. Babaei

Here we study subwavelength gratings for coupling into graphene plasmons by means of an an- alytical model based on transformation optics that is not limited to very shallow gratings. We consider gratings that consist of a periodic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Paloma A. Huidobro , Matthias Kraft , Ren Kun , Stefan A. Maier , John B. Pendry

Plasmonics is based on surface plasmon polariton (SPP) modes which can be laterally confined below the diffraction limit, thereby enabling ultracompact optical components. In order to exploit this potential, the fundamental bottleneck of…

In this article, tunable surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) in graphene-based elliptical waveguides containing gyro-electric layers are investigated. The general structure has an elliptical cross-section, where each gyro-electric layer is…

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

In this paper, we analytically study Surface Plasmon Polaritons (SPPs) in graphene-based cylindrical structures with gyroelectric layers. In the general waveguide, each graphene layer is surrounded by two various gyro-electric materials.…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-26 Mohammad Bagher Heydari

Surface plasmon (SP) excitation in intense laser interaction with solid target can be exploited for enhancing secondary emissions, in particular efficient acceleration of high charge electron bunches. Previous studies have mostly used…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-07-07 J. Sarma , A. McIlvenny , N. Das , M. Borghesi , A. Macchi

The spectral dispersion of light is critical in applications ranging from spectroscopy to sensing and optical communication technologies. We demonstrate that ultra-high spectral dispersion can be achieved with a finite-size surface plasmon…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Mikhailov , J. Elliott , G. Wurtz , P. Bayvel , A. V. Zayats

Surface phonon polaritons (SPhPs) have become a key ingredient for infrared nanophotonics, owing to their long lifetimes and the large number of polar dielectric crystals supporting them. While these evanescent modes have been thoroughly…

The subwavelength focusing based on surface plasmon polaritons (SPP) has been widely explored in tapered metallic structures. However, the efficiency of energy localization is relatively weak, largely due to high propagation loss and strong…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-15 Jie Xu , Xiaohua Deng , Hang Zhang , Chiaho Wu , Martijn Wubs , Sanshui Xiao , Linfang Shen

Multiple compound surface plasmon-polariton (SPP) waves can be guided by a structure consisting of a sufficiently thick layer of metal sandwiched between a homogeneous isotropic dielectric (HID) material and a dielectric structurally chiral…

Efficient power coupling between on-chip guided and free-space optical modes requires precision spatial mode matching with apodized grating couplers. Yet, grating apodizations are often limited by the minimum feature size of the fabrication…

Unidirectional surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) at the interface between a gyrotropic medium and a simple medium are studied in a newly-recognized frequency regime wherein the SPPs form narrow, beam-like patterns due to hyperbolic…

Efficient coupling between integrated optical waveguides and optical fibers is essential to the success of integrated photonics. While many solutions exist, perfectly vertical grating couplers which scatter light out of a waveguide in the…

Optics · Physics 2018-03-14 Andrew Michaels , Eli Yablonovitch

Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) give an opportunity to break the diffraction limit and design nanoscale optical components, however their practical implementation is hindered by high ohmic losses in a metal. Here, we propose a novel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-12 Dmitry A. Svintsov , Aleksey V. Arsenin , Dmitry Yu. Fedyanin

In this study, novel low-loss waveguides and power dividers for ultra-broadband surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) are introduced. This article uses complementary metasurfaces in place of traditional SPP, which are typically produced as…

Surface plasmon polariton (SPP) as a bounded mode on a metal/dielectric interface intrinsically has a definite transverse magnetic (TM) polarization that usually lacks further manipulations. However, the in-plane longitudinal components of…

Optics · Physics 2014-05-07 L. Li , T. Li , X. M. Tang , S. M. Wang , Q. J. Wang , S. N. Zhu

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 canonical boundary-value problem for surface-plasmon-polariton (SPP) waves guided by the planar interface of a dielectric material and a plasmonic material was solved for cases wherein either partnering material could be a uniaxial…

Optics · Physics 2019-09-18 Chenzhang Zhou , Tom G. Mackay , Akhlesh Lakhtakia

Surface-plasmon polaritons (SPPs) are electromagnetic waves that propagate along metal-dielectric interfaces, with important applications in sensing, energy, and nanotechnology. While the behavior of SPPs in single metal slabs is well…