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The dispersion relations for surface plasmon-polaritons propagating in the Voigt geometry in a metal-insulator-metal waveguide with a magneto-optically active dielectric medium are derived. The symmetry between the upper and lower…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-15 D. Nikolova , A. J. Fisher

The ultrafast scattering dynamics of intersubband polaritons in dispersive cavities embedding GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells are studied directly within their band structure using a non-collinear pump-probe geometry with phase-stable…

The propagation distance of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) on metal nanowires is severely limited by their short lifetime, primarily due to strong metallic losses. In this work, we show that the lifetime-and thus the propagation…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-30 Rasim Volga Ovali , Mehmet Emre Tasgin

Transport properties of a single plasmon interacting with two quantum dots (QDs) system coupled to one-dimensional surface plasmonic waveguide are investigated theoretically via the real-space approach. We mainly focus on the coupling…

Space-time (ST) wave packets are propagation-invariant pulsed optical beams that travel freely in dielectrics at a tunable group velocity without diffraction or dispersion. Because ST wave packets maintain these characteristics even when…

Evanescently coupled waveguides are a powerful platform to study and visualize the wave dynamics in tight-binding systems. Here, we investigate the propagation of surface plasmon polaritons in arrays of dielectric loaded surface plasmon…

Optics · Physics 2022-06-29 Helene Wetter , Zlata Fedorova , Stefan Linden

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

Surface plasmon polariton is collective oscillation of the free electrons at metal dielectric interface. As a wave phenomenon, surface plasmon polaritons can be focused using appropriate excitation geometry of metallic structures. We…

Optics · Physics 2015-10-22 P. A. Golovinski , V. A. Astapenko , E. S. Manuylovich

We revisit the scattering of surface plasmons by shallow surface defects for both protrusions and indentations of various lengths, which are deemed infinite in one-dimension parallel to the surface. Subwavelength protrusions and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Giovanni Brucoli , Luis Martín Moreno

We report that femtosecond surface plasmon polariton pulses can propagate along a metal-dielectric waveguide and that they can be modulated on the femtosecond timescale by direct ultrafast optical excitation of the metal, thereby offering…

Optics · Physics 2010-09-03 K. F. MacDonald , Z. L. Samson , M. I. Stockman , N. I. Zheludev

Surface plasmon-polaritons in a multilayer structure consisting of a metallic film and one or more layers of nanocrystal (NC) quantum dots (QDs) are studied. It is shown that there is resonance coupling between the plasmon-polaritons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-14 Yu. V. Bludov , M. I. Vasilevskiy

Plasmonic catalysis holds significant promise for opening new reaction pathways inaccessible thermally, or for improving the efficiency of chemical processes. However, challenges persist in distinguishing photothermal effects from effects…

When placed near a thin metallic film, excitons in a quantum dot (QD) decay into surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs), guided modes of light confined at the interface of the metal/dielectric. It was reported that the interaction of SPPs with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-13 Fernando W. de Alencar Sobreira , Yuriy I. Mazur , Xian Hu , Gregory J. Salamo , Euclydes Marega

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

We analytically investigate the plasmons propagating in a homogeneous two-dimensional (2D) electron system, along the metal grating in the form of a periodic array of strip-shaped electrodes (gates) in the vicinity of the 2D system. We show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-24 A. V. Nikonov , A. A. Zabolotnykh , V. A. Volkov

Here, extending our previous work on this topic, we derive a dynamic closed-form dispersion relation for a rigorous analysis of guided wave propagation along coupled parallel linear arrays of plasmonic nanoparticles, operating as optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Andrea Alu , Pavel A. Belov , Nader Engheta

We study the surface plasmon modes in a silver double-nanowire system by employing the eigenmode analysis approach based on the finite element method. Calculated dispersion relations, surface charge distributions, field patterns and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-14 Shulin Sun , Hung-Ting Chen , Wei-Jin Zheng , Guang-Yu Guo

Highly spatially-squeezed polaritons, with propagation momentum significantly larger than free-space modes at the same frequency, enable varied and extreme control over light-matter interaction. Compared to other polaritons, surface magnon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-20 Chen Qian , Jicheng Jin , Thomas Christensen , Li He , Anthony Sigillito , Eugene J. Mele , Bo Zhen

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

Localized surface plasmons in metal nanoparticles are widely used in nano-optics to confine and enhance optical fields. It has been previously shown that, if the nanoparticles are distributed periodically, an additional enhancement can be…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-04 Xiaorun Zang , Andriy Shevchenko