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Unidirectional reflectionless propagation (or transmission) is an interesting wave phenomenon observed in many $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric optical structures. Theoretical studies on unidirectional reflectionless transmission often use simple…

Optics · Physics 2019-11-13 Lijun Yuan , Ya Yan Lu

The propagation of the collective surface plasmons, called plasmon-polaritons, in infinite equidistant ionic sphere chain has been analyzed. The ideal cancellation of irradiative losses of these ionic excitations in the chain is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 Witold Jacak

The possibility to use surface plasmon polaritons for enhancement of weak magnetic dipole transitions is analyzed theoretically and demonstrated experimentally for simple flat geometry and sine-wave profile modulated plasmonic films.…

Optics · Physics 2018-06-15 S. Mashhadi , M. Durach , D. Keene , N. Noginova

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…

Historically, the field of plasmonics has been relying on the framework of classical electrodynamics, with the local-response approximation of material response being applied even when dealing with nanoscale metallic structures. However,…

Unidirectional backward and forward scattering of electromagnetic waves by nanoparticles are usually interpreted as the interference of conventional multipole moments (i.e., electric and magnetic dipole, electric quadrupole, etc.). The role…

Optics · Physics 2017-05-24 Lixin Ge , Liang Liu , Shiwei Dai , Jiwang Chai , Qianju Song , Hong Xiang , Dezhuan Han

We consider the plasmon polaritons along a layer of hyperbolic metamaterial propagating in the plane of the anisotropy axis with an arbitrary its orientation. As a layer material, we use periodic plane-layered artificial medium or…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-14 Michael V. Davidovich

In this paper, we predict the existence of low-frequency nonlocal plasmon excitations at the vacuum-surface interface of a superlattice of $N$ graphene layers interacting with a thick conducting substrate. This is different from graphite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-11 Godfrey Gumbs , Andrii Iurov , Jhao-Ying Wu , M. F. Lin , Paula Fekete

We analyze one-dimensional photonic superlattices which alternate layers of air and a left-handed material. We assume Drude-type dispersive responses for the dielectric permittivity and magnetic permeability of the left-handed material.…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 E. Reyes-Gomez , A. Bruno-Alfonso , S. B. Cavalcanti , C. A. A. de Carvalho , L. E. Oliveira

In this article, tunable surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) in graphene-based elliptical waveguides containing gyro-electric layers are investigated. The general structure has an elliptical cross-section, where each gyro-electric layer is…

Surface plasmon resonances of metallic nanostructures offer great opportunities to guide and manipulate light on the nanoscale. In the design of novel plasmonic devices, a central topic is to clarify the intricate relationship between the…

Optics · Physics 2019-09-11 Sanghyeon Yu , Habib Ammari

The random-phase-approximation semiclassical scheme for description of plasmon excitations in large metallic nanospheres (with radius 10--100 nm) is developed for a case of presence of dynamical electric field. The spectrum of plasmons in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 W. Jacak , J. Krasnyj , J. Jacak , A. Chepok , L. Jacak , W. Donderowicz , D. Z. Hu , D. M. Schaadt

Plasmon and polariton modes are derived for an ideal semi-infinite (half-space) plasma and an ideal plasma slab by using a general, unifying procedure, based on equations of motion, Maxwell's equations and suitable boundary conditions.…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Apostol , G. Vaman

We study the propagation of surface electromagnetic waves along the metallic surface covered by various layered dielectric structures. We show that strong radiative losses typical for the scattering of the surface wave can be considerably…

Optics · Physics 2010-09-28 Tomas Vary , Peter Markos

By using the real-space method, switching of a single plasmon interacting with a hybrid nanosystem composed of a semiconductor quantum dot (SQD) and a metallic nanoparticle (MNP) coupled to one-dimensional surface plasmonic waveguide is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-13 Myong-Chol Ko , Nam-Chol Kim , Zhong-Hua Hao , Li Zhou , Jian-Bo Li , Qu-Quan Wang

A comprehensive analysis of hybrid TM-TE polarized surface electromagnetic waves supported by different few-layer anisotropic metasurfaces is presented. A generalized 4$\times$4 T-matrix formalism for arbitrary anisotropic 2D layers is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-23 O. V. Kotov , Yu. E. Lozovik

We characterize surface-plasmon polaritons at lossy planar interfaces between one dispersive and one nondispersive linear isotropic homogeneous media, i.e., materials or metamaterials. Specifically we solve Maxwell's equations to obtain…

Surface polaritons in an anisotropic media posses a strong dependence of the wavevector on the propagation direction, which is called the isofrequency contour. This can lead to the fact that polariton propagation is possible only in a…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-16 K. Yu. Golenitskii

Electromagnetic metasurfaces enable the advanced control of surface-wave propagation by spatially tailoring the local surface reactance. Interestingly, tailoring the surface resistance distribution in space provides new, largely unexplored…

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