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We study the propagation of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) on a metal surface which hosts a thin film of a liquid dielectric. The ohmic losses, that are inherently present due to the coupling of SPPs to conductors' electron plasma,…

Optics · Physics 2018-06-20 Shimon Rubin , Yeshaiahu Fainman

Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) are generated on the graphene surface, and provide a window into the nano-optical and electrodynamic response of their host material and its dielectric environment. An accurate simulation of SPPs presents…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Jichun Li , Michael Neunteufel , Li Zhu

We consider the electromagnetic field near an interface between two media with arbitrary real frequency-dependent permittivities and permeabilities, under conditions supporting the surface plasmon-polariton (SPP) propagation. The dispersion…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-28 Aleksandr Bekshaev , Lidiya Mikhaylovskaya

The canonical boundary-value problem for surface-plasmon-polariton (SPP) waves guided by the planar interface of a dielectric material and a plasmonic material was solved for cases wherein either partnering material could be a uniaxial…

Optics · Physics 2019-09-18 Chenzhang Zhou , Tom G. Mackay , 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

The quasi-bound electromagnetic modes for the arrays of nanoholes perforated in thin gold film are analyzed both numerically by the rigorous coupled wave analysis (RCWA) method and semi-analytically by the coupled mode method. It is shown…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-10 Munehiro Nishida , Noriyuki Hatakenaka , Yutaka Kadoya

This paper presents an analytical study of TM-polarized surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) in nonlinear multi-layer structures containing graphene sheets. In the general structure, each graphene sheet has been sandwiched between two…

We propose a model accounting for plasmons within a two temperature description, to investigate the role of surface plasmon polaritons (SPP) in the energy redistribution between laser excited electrons and the lattice, leading to surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-10 Othmane Benhayoun , P. N. Terekhin , Dmitry Ivanov , Bärbel Rethfeld , Martin Garcia

The field of plasmonics offers a route to control light fields with metallic nanostructures through the excitation of Surface Plasmon Polaritons (SPPs). These surface waves, bound to a metal dielectric interface, tightly confine…

We establish the theoretical framework for a material system that supports surface plasmon polaritions (SPPs) excited by a dipole excitation, where the media configuration suddenly changes at a temporal boundary. We employ three-dimensional…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-10 Jay A. Berres , S. Ali Hassani Gangaraj , George W. Hanson

Space-time (ST) wave packets are propagation-invariant pulsed optical beams that travel freely in dielectrics at a tunable group velocity without diffraction or dispersion. Because ST wave packets maintain these characteristics even when…

We describe effects of nonlinearity on propagation of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) at an interface between a metal and an amplifying medium of the externally pumped two-level atoms. Using Maxwell equations we derive the nonlinear…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-14 A. Marini , A. V. Gorbach , D. V. Skryabin , A. V. Zayats

We theoretically demonstrate coherent control over propagation of surface plasmon polaritons(SPP), at both telecommunication and visible wavelengths, on a metallic surface adjacent to quantum coherence (phaseonium) medium composed of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Pankaj K. Jha , Xiaobo Yin , Xiang Zhang

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 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

Excitation of multiple surface plasmon-polaritons(SPPs) by an equichiral sculptured thin film with a metal layer defect was studied theoretically in the Sarid configuration, using the transfer matrix method. Multiple SPP modes were…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-13 SH. Hosseininezhad , F. Babaei

Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) have been widely exploited in various scientific communities, ranging from physics, chemistry to biology, due to the strong confinement of light to the metal surface. For many applications it is important…

Transmission spectra of metallic films or membranes perforated by arrays of subwavelength slits or holes have been widely interpreted as resonance absorption by surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs). Alternative interpretations involving…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Gay , O. Alloschery , B. Vairis de Lesegno , J. Weiner , H. J. Lezec

Here, the dispersion of edge surface plasmon polariton (SPP) modes is expressed in terms of the elements of the conductivity tensor.

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 Mohsen Sabbaghi

Plasmonic nanostructures, which are used to generate surface plasmon polaritions (SPPs), always involve sharp corners where the charges can accumulate. This can result in strong localized electromagnetic fields at the metallic corners,…

Optics · Physics 2016-09-21 Wenjie Yao , Chengwei Sun , Jianjun Chen , Qihuang Gong