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The light transmission through square and rectangular holes in a metal film has been studied. By taking account of plasma response of real metal on hole walls as well as metal surface, an analytical result for the transmission has been…

Optics · Physics 2007-06-20 Cheng-ping Huang , Qian-jin Wang , Yong-yuan Zhu

We study surface plasmon polaritons on topological insulator-vacuum interface. When the time-reversal symmetry is broken due to ferromagnetic coupling, the surface states exhibit magneto-optical Kerr effect. This effect gives rise to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-21 Junjie Qi , Haiwen Liu , X. C. Xie

We describe a surface structure consisting of a metal-air interface where the metallic part consists of two metallic segments with a periodic modulation of the interface between them. Such a structure possesses a different transmissivity…

Optics · Physics 2016-09-02 Vladimir Kuzmiak , Alexei A. Maradudin

We demonstrate chiral propagation of plasmon polaritons and show it is more efficient and easier to control than the recently observed chiral shear phonon polaritons. We consider plasmon polaritons created in an anisotropic two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-18 Ze-Hua Tao , Icaro R. Lavor , Hai-Ming Dong , Andrey Chaves , David Neilson , Milorad V. Milosevic

We consider exciting surface plasmon polaritons in the Kretschmann configuration. Contrary to common belief, we show that a plane wave incident at an angle greater than the angle of total internal reflection does not excite surface plasmon…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-06-13 A. P. Vinogradov , A. V. Dorofeenko , A. A. Pukhov , A. A. Lisyansky

When a sculptured thin film (STF), made of a metal and $\leq50$ nm thick, is used in lieu of a dense layer of metal in the Kretschmann configuration, experimental data for an STF comprising parallel tilted nanowires shows that a surface…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ibrahim Abdulhalim , Akhlesh Lakhtakia , Amit Lahav , Fan Zhang , Jian Xu

Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) are coherent electromagnetic surface waves trapped on an insulator-conductor interface. The SPPs decay exponentially along the propagation due to conductor losses, restricting the SPPs propagation length to…

Optics · Physics 2015-12-11 M. Mattheakis , T. Oikonomou , M. I. Molina , G. P. Tsironis

We study plasmon propagation on a metallic two-dimensional surface partially coated with a thin film of anomalous-Hall material. The resulting three regions, separated by two sharp interfaces, are characterised by different Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Thomas Benjamin Smith , Iacopo Torre , Alessandro Principi

Biomimetic nanoengineered metamaterials called chiral sculptured thin films (CSTFs) are attractive platforms for optical sensing because their porosity, morphology and optical properties can be tailored to order. Furthermore, their ability…

Optics · Physics 2010-04-13 Tom G. Mackay , Akhlesh Lakhtakia

The planar interface of a metal and a hyperbolic, dielectric, structurally chiral material can support the propagation of none, one, or multiple surface-plasmon-polariton (SPP) waves, at a specified frequency and along a specified direction…

Optics · Physics 2014-06-23 Akhlesh Lakhtakia , Muhammad Faryad

We show how a complex Snell's law can be used to describe the refraction of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) at an interface between two metals, validating its predictions with 3-D electrodynamics simulations. Refraction gives rise to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-10 Jonathan J. Foley , Jeffrey M. McMahon , George C. Schatz , Stephen K. Gray

The propagation of surface plasmon polaritons in thin films of topological insulators is studied. The materials considered are second generation three dimensional topological insulators Bi$_2$Se$_3$, Bi$_2$Te$_3$, and Sb$_2$Te$_3$.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-24 Yury Deshko , Lia Krusin-Elbaum , Vinod Menon , Alexander Khanikaev , Jacob Trevino

The effect of the tilt angle of metal film on the transmissivity of subwavelength holes in optically thick metal film is investigated. The transmission efficiency is found can be highly dependent on the tilt angle. It is also found that…

In this paper, we report theoretical investigation on excitation of surface plexciton wave at interface of a metal and a columnar thin film infiltrated with J-aggregate dyes using transfer matrix method in Kretschmann configuration. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Ferydon Babaei , Mona Rostami

The propagation of a surface plasmon-polariton along a stack of doped graphene sheets is considered. This auxiliary problem is used to discuss: (i) the scattering of such a mode at an interface between the stack and the vacuum; (ii) the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 Yu. V. Bludov , N. M. R. Peres , G. Smirnov , M. I. Vasilevskiy

The properties of thermal radiation exchange between hot and cold objects can be strongly modified if they interact in the near field where electromagnetic coupling occurs across gaps narrower than the dominant wavelength of thermal…

The design, fabrication, and optical properties of a composite plasmonic structure, a two-dimentional array of split-ring resonators inserted into periodic square holes of a metal film, have been reported. A new type of transmission…

We theoretically investigate surface plasmon polaritons propagating in the thin-film Weyl semimetals. We show how the properties of surface plasmon polaritons are affected by hybridization between plasmons localized at the two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-14 Tomohiro Tamaya , Takeo Kato , Satoru Konabe , Shiro Kawabata

Spontaneous down conversion in metal-dielectric interface in case of oblique laser excitation is considered. In this case it is possible to generate pairs of polarization entangled surface plasmon polaritons with high efficiency if to use…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-10 Vladimir Hizhnyakov , Ardi Loot

Tamm plasmon provides a new avenue in plasmonics of interface states in planar multilayer structures due to its strong light matter interaction. This article reviews the research and development in Tamm plasmon polariton excited at the…

Optics · Physics 2022-12-14 Chinmaya Kar , Shuvendu Jena , Dinesh V. Udupa , K. Divakar Rao