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We study surface waves localized near a surface of a semi-infinite dielectric medium covered by a layer of graphene in the presence of a strong external magnetic field. We demonstrate that both TE-TM hybrid surface plasmons can propagate…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-11 Ivan Iorsh , Ilya Shadrivov , Pavel Belov , Yuri Kivshar

Plasmonic phenomena are exhibited in light-matter interaction involving materials whose real parts of permittivity functions attain negative values at operating wavelengths. However, such materials usually suffer from dissipative losses,…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-22 Cristian Della Giovampaola , Nader Engheta

Metals such as silver support surface plasmons: electromagnetic surface excitations localised near the surface which originate from the free electrons of the metal. Surface modes are also observed on highly conducting surfaces perforated by…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-08 JB Pendry , L Martin-Moreno , FJ Garcia-Vidal

Nonreciprocal photonic devices enable "one-way" light flows and are essential building blocks of optical systems. Here, we investigate an alternative paradigm to break reciprocity and achieve unidirectional subwavelength light propagation…

Optics · Physics 2018-10-26 Tiago A. Morgado , Mário G. Silveirinha

Controlling low power light beam self-confinement with ultrafast response time opens up opportunities for the development of signal processing in microdevices. The combination of highly nonlinear medium with the tight confinement of…

Spatial separation of electrons and holes in graphene gives rise to existence of plasmon waves confined to the boundary region. Theory of such guided plasmon modes within hydrodynamics of electron-hole liquid is developed. For plasmon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-19 E. G. Mishchenko , A. V. Shytov , P. G. Silvestrov

The resonant scattering of surface plasmon-polariton waves by embedded semiconductor quantum dots above the dielectric/metal interface is explored in the strong-coupling regime. In contrast to non-resonant scattering by a localized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Danhong Huang , Michelle Easter , Godfrey Gumbs , A. A. Maradudin , Shawn-Yu Lin , Dave Cardimona , Xiang Zhang

The canonical problem of the propagation of surface-plasmon-polariton (SPP) waves localized to the planar interface of a metal and a sculptured nematic thin film (SNTF) that is periodically nonhomogeneous along the direction normal to the…

Optics · Physics 2010-07-13 Muhammad Faryad , John A. Polo , Akhlesh Lakhtakia

Recently, guiding electromagnetic surface waves without sacrificing scattering losses through paths that have arbitrary shape bumps has gained a lot of interest due to its wealth of advantages in modern photonics and plasmonics devices. In…

Nonlinear optical behavior of recently introduced surface plasmon toy black hole models has been considered. Physical realization of these models involves droplets of liquid on a metal surface, which supports propagation of surface…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Igor I. Smolyaninov

Quantum plasmonics is a rapidly growing field of research that involves the study of the quantum properties of light and its interaction with matter at the nanoscale. Here, surface plasmons - electromagnetic excitations coupled to electron…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-25 M. S. Tame , K. R. McEnery , S. K. Ozdemir , J. Lee , S. A. Maier , M. S. Kim

We investigate the existence and the dispersion characteristics of surface waves that propagate at an interface between metal-dielectric superlattice and isotropic dielectric. Within the long wavelength limit, when the effective-medium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Slobodan M. Vukovic , Juan J. Miret , Carlos J. Zapata-Rodriguez , Zoran Jaksic

Assuming that the resonant surface plasmons on a spherical nanoparticle is formed by standing waves of two counter-propagating surface plasmon waves along the surface, by using Mie theory simulation, we find that the dispersions of surface…

Optics · Physics 2014-12-09 Yurui Fang , Xiaorui Tian

The photonic hook (PH) is new type of curved light beam which has promising applications in various fields such as nanoparticle manipulation, super-resolution imaging, etc. Herein, we proposed a new approach of utilizing patchy…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-10 Fen Tang , Qingqing Shang , Songlin Yang , Ting Wang , Sorin Melinte , Chao Zuo , Ran Ye

We present a way of exciting surface plasmon polaritons along non-patterned metallic surfaces by means of a flat squeezing slab designed with transformation optics. The slab changes the dispersion relation of incident light, enabling…

Surface plasmon polaritons (SSP), moving along a smooth curved interface between two isotropic media with slowly varying dielectric permittivities and magnetic permeabilities and supporting SSP, are studied theoretically. Solutions of…

Optics · Physics 2011-04-20 Maria V. Perel , Dmitry Yu. Zaika

Surface plasmon polaritons have received much attention over the last decades in photonics or nanotechnology due to their inherent high sensitivity to metal surface variations (e.g., presence of adsorbates or changes in the roughness). It…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-09 J. Hernández-Rueda , A. S. Sanz , R. Martínez-Herrero

We present a theoretical study of the curvature-induced radiation of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) propagating around bends at metal-dielectric interfaces. We explain qualitatively how the curvature leads to distortion of the phase…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Keisuke Hasegawa , Jens U. Noeckel , Miriam Deutsch

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

Guiding and confining light at interfaces is crucial for applications involving light-matter interactions such as surface spectroscopy, nonlinear optics, and quantum information technology. While dielectric surface waves offer promising…