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We propose a generator of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) which, unlike spasers or plasmon lasers, does not require stimulated emission in the system. Its principle of operation is based on a positive feedback which a classical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-24 V. G. Bordo

The optical emittance of a hole pair perforated in an opaque metal film is studied from first-principles using the coupled-mode method. The geometrical simplicity of this system helps to understand the fundamental role played by surface…

Optics · Physics 2011-09-09 F. de León-Pérez , F. J. García-Vidal , L. Martín-Moreno

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

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

Because surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) are surface waves characterized by one free transverse dimension, the only monochromatic diffraction-free spatial profiles for SPPs are cosine and Airy waves. Pulsed SPP wave packets have been…

Surface plasmon polaritons (SPP or SP) are electromagnetic waves propagating along metal dielectric interfaces and existing over a wide range of frequencies. They have become popular because of their sub-wavelength confinement and the…

Optics · Physics 2012-11-08 Vasily V. Temnov

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

The ability to control propagation of electromagnetic guided modes lies at the heart of integrated nanophotonics. Surface plasmon-polaritons are a class of guided modes which can be employed in integrated optical systems. Here, we present a…

Optics · Physics 2016-08-24 Anton I. Ignatov , Igor A. Nechepurenko , Denis G. Baranov

We investigate the excitation of quantum plasmonic states of light in graphene using end-fire and prism coupling. In order to model the excitation process quantum mechanically we quantize the transverse-electric and transverse-magnetic…

Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) lasing requires population inversion, it is inefficient and possesses poor spectral properties. We develop an inversion-less concept for a quantum plasmonic waveguide that exploits unidirectional…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-12 Saeid Asgarnezhad-Zorgabad

We study and actively control the coherent properties of Surface Plasmon Polaritons (SPPs) optically exited on a nano-hole array. Amplitude and phase of the optical excitation are externally controlled via a digital spatial light modulator…

Optics · Physics 2013-04-05 B. Gjonaj , J. Aulbach , P. M. Johnson , A. P. Mosk , L. Kuipers , A. Lagendijk

We propose controlling the angular and spectral distribution of hard x-ray emission by entangling x-ray photons with ultraviolet surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) whose dispersion is engineered by a metal-dielectric multilayer on a…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-29 H. Aknin , Y. Klein , S. Shwartz

A rigorous formulation for the scattering of surface plasmon polaritons (SPP) from a one-dimensional surface defect of any shape that yields the electromagnetic field in the vacuum half-space above the vacuum-metal interface is developed by…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 J. A. Sanchez-Gil , A. A. Maradudin

We report on the efficient generation, propagation, and re-emission of squeezed long-range surface-plasmon polaritons (SPPs) in a gold waveguide. Squeezed light is used to excite the non-classical SPPs and the re-emitted quantum state is…

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…

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…

We propose a scheme to study the nonlinear propagation properties of nonlinear surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) in a three level $\Lambda$ type electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) system with modulation of a rectangular barrier.…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-20 Xiangchun Tian , Yundong Zhang , Yu Duan , Yong Zhou , Chaohua Tan

In this article, an analytical model is proposed for the study of Transverse-electric (TE) surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) in nonlinear multi-layer graphene-based waveguides. Each graphene sheet has been located between two different…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-06 Mohammad Bagher Heydari

Solid state light emitters rely on metallic contacts with high sheet-conductivity for effective charge injection. Unfortunately, such contacts also support surface plasmon polariton (SPP) excitations that dissipate optical energy into the…

We separate Maxwell's equations for background media that allow for both electric and magnetic time-dependence in a generalized Lorenz gauge. In a process analogous to the dynamical Casimir effect (DCE) we discuss how surface plasmon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Wade Naylor