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We show that the surface plasmon polariton (SPP) radiation patterns of point-dipole emitters in the vicinity of a metal-dielectric interface are generally asymmetric with respect to the location of the emitter. In particular rotating…

Optics · Physics 2013-12-02 J. P. Balthasar Mueller , Federico Capasso

The experimental demonstration and characterization is made of the plasmon-mediated resonant transmission through an embedded undulated continuous thin metal film under normal incidence. 1D undulations are shown to enable a spatially…

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

Zeroth-order complex dispersion relations of a cylindrical metallic nanowire have been solved out analytically with approximate methods. The analytical solutions are valid for the sections of the dispersion relations whose frequencies are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Li Wan , Yun-Mi Huang , Chang-Kun Dong , Hai-Jun Luo

Overcoming the diffraction limit to achieve high optical resolution is one of the main challenges in the fields of plasmonics, nanooptics and nanophotonics. In this work, we introduce novel plasmonic structures consisting of nanoantennas…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Nancy Rahbany , Wei Geng , Renaud Bachelot , Christophe Couteau

Surface phonon polaritons (SPhP) and surface plasmon polaritons (SPP), evanescent modes supported by media with negative permittivity, are a fundamental building block of nanophotonics. These modes are unmatched in terms of field…

We study the interband self-induced transmission of surface plasmon polaritons in a gold film surrounded by an external Kerr medium. We model the optical propagation by using a version of the generalized nonlinear Schrodinger equation for…

Optics · Physics 2013-06-19 Andrea Marini , Fabio Biancalana

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

The WKB equations for dynamics of the surface plasmon polariton (SPP) wavepacket are studied. The dispersion law for the SPP in the metal-dielectric heterostructure with varying thickness of a perforated dielectric layer is rigorously…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-18 V. I. Belotelov , D. A. Bykov , L. L. Doskolovich , A. K. Zvezdin

We investigate the surface plasmonic lattice solitons (PLSs) in semi-infinite graphene sheet arrays. The surface soliton is formed as the SPPs tunneling is inhibited by the graphene nonlinearity, and meanwhile the incident power should be…

Optics · Physics 2017-07-21 Zhouqing Wang , Bing Wang , Hua Long , Kai Wang , Peixiang Lu

We have investigated the one-way surface plasmon-polariton (SPP) at the interface of a continuous magneto-plasma material and metal. We demonstrated that TM modes inside a continuous material can be assigned non-trivial Chern numbers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-08 S. Ali Hassani Gangaraj , Andrei Nemilentsau , George W. Hanson

We extend designs of perfect lenses to the focussing of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) propagating at the interface between two anisotropic media of opposite permittivity sign. We identify the role played by the components of anisotropic…

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

This report concerns with the theoretical studies of SPP Bloch waves in arrays of cylindrical holes. Most analytical solutions are simplified, approximate and fitted, thus leading to wrong design parameters. A rigorous analytical solution…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-15 Amir Djalalian-Assl

Interference patterns of surface plasmon polaritons(SPPs) are observed in the extraordinary optical transmission through subwavelength holes in optically thick metal plate. It is found that the phase of incident light can be transferred to…

We consider propagation of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) in linear periodic chains (LPCs) of prolate and oblate metallic spheroids. We show that the SPP group velocity can be efficiently controlled by varying the aspect ratio of the…

Optics · Physics 2008-11-07 Alexander A. Govyadinov , Vadim A. Markel

We investigated, both experimentally and theoretically, the reflection phase shift (RPS) of one-dimensional plasmon polaritons. We launched 1D plasmon polaritons in carbon nanotube and probed the plasmon interference pattern using scanning…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Xingdong Luo , Cheng Hu , Bosai Lyu , Liu Yang , Xianliang Zhou , Aolin Deng , Ji-Hun Kang , Zhiwen Shi

We experimentally and theoretically investigate exciton-field coupling for the surface plasmon polariton (SPP) in waveguide-confined (WC) anti-symmetric modes of hexagonal plasmonic crystals in InP-TiO-Au-TiO-Si heterostructures. The…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hideo Iwase , Dirk Englund , Jelena Vuckovic

We develop a microscopic theory for the multimode polariton dispersion in materials coupled to cavity radiation modes. Starting from a microscopic light-matter Hamiltonian, we devise a general strategy for obtaining simple matrix models of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-09 Arkajit Mandal , Ding Xu , Ankit Mahajan , Joonho Lee , Milan E. Delor , David R. Reichman

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