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The propagation of Dyakonov surface waves guided by the planar interface of (i) an isotropic dielectric material and (ii) a homogenized uniaxial dielectric composite material comprising both passive and active component materials was…

Optics · Physics 2018-09-25 Tom G. Mackay , Akhlesh Lakhtakia

In this paper, we analytically study Surface Plasmon Polaritons (SPPs) in graphene-based cylindrical structures with gyroelectric layers. In the general waveguide, each graphene layer is surrounded by two various gyro-electric materials.…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-26 Mohammad Bagher Heydari

We analyze dispersion properties of metal-dielectric nanostructured metamaterials. We demonstrate that, in a sharp contrast to the results for the corresponding effective medium, the structure demonstrates strong optical nonlocality due to…

It is demonstrated that a new kind of low-loss surface electromagnetic wave may propagate along a planar surface inside a lossy medium if the medium permittivity changes continuously across such surface. Similar to surface plasmons, the…

Optics · Physics 2021-08-25 Igor I. Smolyaninov

Collective modes in two-dimensional electron fluids show an interesting response to a background carrier flow. Surface plasmons propagating on top of a flowing Fermi liquid acquire a non-reciprocal character manifest in a $\pm k$ asymmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-01 Haoyang Gao , Zhiyu Dong , Leonid Levitov

Localized surface plasmon resonances (LSPRs) have recently been identified in extremely diluted electron systems obtained by doping semiconductor quantum dots. Here we investigate the role that different surface effects, namely electronic…

Optics · Physics 2015-04-29 R. Carmina Monreal , Tomasz J. Antosiewicz , S. Peter Apell

The nonlinear theory of collective plasmon-polariton propagation along the infinite chain of metallic nanoparticles is developed within RPA quasiclassical approach to surface plasmons in large nano-spheres (10-50 nm for radius) of Au or Ag.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-14 Witold Jacak

Nonreciprocal plasmonics enables one-way light propagation at the nanoscale and it is an essential building block for photonics applications. Here, we explore intrinsic nonreciprocity in bulk plasmon propagation based on underlying…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 Debasis Dutta , Atasi Chakraborty , Amit Agarwal

We investigate surface waves at the boundary between a semi-infinite layered metal-dielectric nanostructure cut normally to the layers and a semi-infinite dielectric. Spatial dispersion properties of such a nanostructure can be dramatically…

Dielectric environment engineering is an efficient and general approach to manipulating polaritons. Liquids serving as surrounding media of polaritons have been used to shift polariton dispersions and tailor polariton wavefronts. However,…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-05 Zhenyang Cui , Sihao Xia , Lian Shen , Bin Zheng , Hongsheng Chen , Yingjie Wu

This paper is withdrawn by the authors. We theoretically examine graphene plasmon polaritons (GPP) supported by a sheet of graphene sandwiched between two dielectric media. The influence of the dielectric environment on GPP's is studied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-24 Thomas Christensen , Antti-Pekka Jauho , N. Asger Mortensen

We review studies of superintense laser interaction with solid targets where the generation of propagating surface plasmons (or surface waves) plays a key role. These studies include the onset of plasma instabilities at the irradiated…

Optics · Physics 2018-04-18 A. Macchi

Surface plasmon polariton is collective oscillation of the free electrons at metal dielectric interface. As a wave phenomenon, surface plasmon polaritons can be focused using appropriate excitation geometry of metallic structures. We…

Optics · Physics 2015-10-22 P. A. Golovinski , V. A. Astapenko , E. S. Manuylovich

The suite of highly confined polaritons supported by two-dimensional (2D) materials constitutes a versatile platform for nano-optics, offering the means to channel light on deep-subwavelength scales. Graphene, in particular, has attracted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 T. P. Rasmussen , P. A. D. Gonçalves , Sanshui Xiao , Sebastian Hofferberth , N. Asger Mortensen , Joel D. Cox

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

We theoretically show the existence of cascaded second-order surface plasmon solitons propagating at the interface between metal and linear dielectric. Nonlocal multipole nonlinearities originating from free conduction electron plasma of a…

Optics · Physics 2014-05-21 Pavel Ginzburg , Alexey Krasavin , Anatoly V. Zayats

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

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…

Nonlinear properties of Surface Plasmon Polaritons stemming from the inherent electron plasma nonlinearity of the metal layers are investigated. A fluid-mechanics plasma model is used to describe the electron motion in metals. The nonlinear…

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…

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