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Graphene is a privileged 2D platform for hosting confined light-matter excitations known as surface plasmon-polaritons (SPPs), as it possesses low intrinsic losses with a high degree of optical confinement. However, the inherently isotropic…

Dynamic manipulation of the surface plasmon polariton (SPP) and wave steering are important in plasmonic applications. In this work, we excite a curved SPP in topological continua by applying a radial magnetic bias. We believe that it is a…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-30 Samaneh Pakniyat , Alexander H Holmes , George W Hanson

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…

Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) are generated on the graphene surface, and provide a window into the nano-optical and electrodynamic response of their host material and its dielectric environment. An accurate simulation of SPPs presents…

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Plasmonic excitations such as surface-plasmon-polaritons (SPPs) and graphene-plasmons (GPs), carry large momenta and are thus able to confine electromagnetic fields to small dimensions. This property makes them ideal platforms for…

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…

In this paper we will present a quantization method for SPP (Surface Plasmon Polariton) based on Green's tensor method, which is applied usually for quantization of EM-field in various dielectric media. This method will be applied for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-24 Z. Allameh , R. Roknizadeh , R. Masoudi

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…

We present a semi-analytical model that predicts the excitation of surface-plasmon polaritons (SPP) on a graphene sheet located in front of a sub-wavelength slit drilled in thick metal screen. We identify the signature of the SPP in the…

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Two-dimensional plasmonic demultiplexers for surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs), which consist of concentric grooves on a gold film, are proposed and experimentally demonstrated to realize light-SPP coupling, effective dispersion and…

Optics · Physics 2010-08-23 Chenglong Zhao , Jiasen Zhang

Hyperbolic metamaterials (HMMs) represent a novel class of fascinating anisotropic plasmonic materials, supporting highly confined propagating plasmon polaritons in addition to surface plasmon polaritons. However, it is very challenging to…

The flat metasurfaces described by tensor surface conductivity, the transverse size of which is small compared to the wavelength, are considered. In this case, we introduce two-dimensional surface conductivity for them, as well as for…

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We present how to physically realize the auxiliary source described in the recently introduced active plasmon injection loss compensation scheme for enhanced near-field superlensing. Particularly, we show that the characteristics of the…

Optics · Physics 2018-08-22 Anindya Ghoshroy , Xu Zhang , Wyatt Adams , Durdu O. Guney

The possibility to excite Surface Plasmon Polaritons (SPPs) at the interface between two media depends on the optical properties of both media and geometrical aspects. Specific conditions allowing the coupling of light with a plasmon-active…

Optics · Physics 2016-10-21 Thibault J. -Y. Derrien , Jörg Krüger , Jörn Bonse

We investigate the optical properties of sub-wavelength layered metal/dielectric structures, also known as hyperbolic metamaterials (HMMs), using exact analytical Kronig Penney (KP) model. We show that hyperbolic isofrequency surfaces exist…

Optics · Physics 2016-09-09 Tengfei Li , Jacob B. Khurgin

We propose a plasmonic device consisting of a concentric ring grating acting as an efficient tool for directional launching and detection of surface plasmon-polaritons (SPPs). Numerical simulations and optical characterizations are used to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-05 N. Rahbany , W. Geng , R. Salas-Montiel , S. de la Cruz , E. R. Méndez , S. Blaize , R. Bachelot , C. Couteau

A hyperbolic plasmonic surface supports highly directional propagating polaritons with extremely large density of states. Such plasmon polaritons have been realized in artificially structured metasurfaces. However, the upper bound of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-06 Chong Wang , Shenyang Huang , Qiaoxia Xing , Yuangang Xie , Chaoyu Song , Fanjie Wang , Hugen Yan

The plasmon and phonon polaritons of two-dimensional (2d) and van-der-Waals materials have recently gained substantial interest. Unfortunately, they are notoriously hard to observe in linear response because of their strong confinement, low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-13 Christian Wolff , N. Asger Mortensen

We consider the electromagnetic field near an interface between two media with arbitrary real frequency-dependent permittivities and permeabilities, under conditions supporting the surface plasmon-polariton (SPP) propagation. The dispersion…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-28 Aleksandr Bekshaev , Lidiya Mikhaylovskaya

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