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We discuss the scattering of graphene surface plasmon-polaritons (SPPs) at an interface between two semi-infinite graphene sheets with different doping levels and/or different underlying dielectric substrates. We take into account…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-31 A. J. Chaves , B. Amorim , Yu. V. Bludov , P. A. D. Gonçalves , N. M. R. Peres

We develop an approach to utilize anisotropic metamaterials to solve one of the fundamental problems of modern plasmonics -- parasitic scattering of surface waves into free-space modes, opening the road to truly two-dimensional plasmonic…

Optics · Physics 2008-02-11 Justin Elser , Viktor A. Podolskiy

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

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

By using numerical and analytical methods, we describe the generation of fine-scale lateral electromagnetic waves, called surface plasmon-polaritons (SPPs), on atomically thick, metamaterial conducting sheets in two spatial dimensions (2D).…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-02-06 Matthias Maier , Dionisios Margetis , Mitchell Luskin

Light with light control of surface plasmon polaritons is theoretically demonstrated. A barely simple and compact source of these waves consists in a finite number of slits (evenly spaced) perforating a metal film. The system scatters…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-08-08 Sergio G. Rodrigo

The WKB equations for dynamics of the surface plasmon polariton (SPP) wavepacket are studied. The dispersion law for the SPP in the metal-dielectric heterostructure with varying thickness of a perforated dielectric layer is rigorously…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-18 V. I. Belotelov , D. A. Bykov , L. L. Doskolovich , A. K. Zvezdin

We explored the effects of relative motion on the excitation of surface-plasmon-polariton (SPP) waves guided by the planar interface of a metal film and a dielectric slab, both materials being isotropic and homogeneous. Electromagnetic…

Optics · Physics 2011-12-01 Tom G. Mackay , Akhlesh Lakhtakia

Using the Jacobi Elliptic Functions, an analytical solution is developed for the nonlinear amplitude equation of Surface Plasmon Polaritons (SPPs) in a graphene-dielectric waveguide. It is shown that the field localization of SPPs coupled…

Optics · Physics 2020-09-15 Morteza A. Sharif

The discovery of many fascinating new phenomena associated with the surface plasmon polariton (SPP) has triggered the rapid development of nanophotonics and nanoelectronics. We report here the experimental observation of a fundamentally new…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 ChunKai Xu , WenJie Liu , PanKe Zhang , KeZun Xu , Yi Luo , XiangJun Chen

We show that the surface plasmon polariton (SPP) radiation patterns of point-dipole emitters in the vicinity of a metal-dielectric interface are generally asymmetric with respect to the location of the emitter. In particular rotating…

Optics · Physics 2013-12-02 J. P. Balthasar Mueller , Federico Capasso

Surface-plasmon-polariton~(SPP) wave propagation guided by a metal slab in a periodically nonhomogeneous sculptured nematic thin film~(SNTF) was studied theoretically. The morphologically significant planes of the SNTF on both sides of the…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-19 Muhammad Faryad , Akhlesh Lakhtakia

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

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

Plasmonics is based on surface plasmon polariton (SPP) modes which can be laterally confined below the diffraction limit, thereby enabling ultracompact optical components. In order to exploit this potential, the fundamental bottleneck of…

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…

The scattering of light and surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) by finite arrays of either holes or dimples in a metal film is treated theoretically. A modal expansion formalism, capable of handling real metals with up to thousands of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-12-03 F. de Leon-Perez , G. Brucoli , F. J. Garcia-Vidal , L. Martin-Moreno

We develop a concept of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) based four-wave mixing (4WM), in which a laser-launched evanescent SPP field is utilized as a coherent pumping source to involve directly in a nonlinear 4WM process at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Qun Zhang , Ke Lin , Yi Luo

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…

Recent works dealt with the optical transmission on arrays of subwavelength holes perforated in a thick metallic film. We have performed simulations which quantitatively agree with experimental results and which unambiguously evidence that…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Lalanne , J. C. Rodier , J. P. Hugonin