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Highly spatially-squeezed polaritons, with propagation momentum significantly larger than free-space modes at the same frequency, enable varied and extreme control over light-matter interaction. Compared to other polaritons, surface magnon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-20 Chen Qian , Jicheng Jin , Thomas Christensen , Li He , Anthony Sigillito , Eugene J. Mele , Bo Zhen

Via exploitation of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs), columnar thin films (CTFs) are attractive potential platforms for optical sensing as their relative permittivity dyadic and porosity can be tailored to order. Nanoscale model parameters…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-14 Tom G. Mackay , Akhlesh Lakhtakia

Multiple compound surface plasmon-polariton (SPP) waves can be guided by a structure consisting of a sufficiently thick layer of metal sandwiched between a homogeneous isotropic dielectric (HID) material and a dielectric structurally chiral…

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

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…

The dispersion relations for surface plasmon-polaritons propagating in the Voigt geometry in a metal-insulator-metal waveguide with a magneto-optically active dielectric medium are derived. The symmetry between the upper and lower…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-15 D. Nikolova , A. J. Fisher

Graphene supports surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) with extreme field confinement and electrical tunability, but these waves are typically short-lived due to ohmic loss in the sheet. We show that embedding graphene in an active dielectric…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-24 Andrianos Sygrimis , Giorgos P. Tsironis

We review the properties of the surface waves that are scattered by two-dimensional sub-wavelength indentations on metallic surfaces. We show that two distinct waves are involved, a surface plasmon polariton (SPP) and a quasi-cylindrical…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-09-14 P. Lalanne , J. P. Hugonin , H. T. Liu , B. Wang

We have studied the dependence of the rotation angle and ellipticity on the sample orientation and incident polarization from metallic nanohole arrays. The arrays have four-fold symmetry and thus do not possess any intrinsic chirality. We…

Optics · Physics 2017-04-19 Z. L. Cao , L. Y. Yiu , Z. Q. Zhang , C. T. Chan , H. C. Ong

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

A simple yet accurate model for the transmission of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) in a finite metal-insulator-metal (MIM) waveguide to the sides of the apertures is proposed and demonstrated to be more accurate than available models. It…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-27 S. B. Iplikcioglu , M. I. Aksun

In our work we investigate the propagation of optical modes in nanoscale hybrid plasmonic waveguides. Frequency domain Maxwell equations based simulations are implemented to study properties of mixed modes in 3D. The results of our analysis…

We report the design, fabrication and characterization of a periodic grating of shallow rectangular grooves in a metallic film with the goal of maximizing the coupling efficiency of an extended plane wave (PW) of visible or near-infrared…

Optics · Physics 2011-11-04 Stephan T. Koev , Amit Agrawal , Henri J. Lezec , Vladimir A. Aksyuk

Cavity-magnon polaritons (CMPs) are the associated quasiparticles of the hybridization between cavity photons and magnons in a magnetic sample placed in a microwave resonator. In the strong coupling regime, where the macroscopic coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-24 Isabella Boventer , Mathias Kläui , Rair Macêdo , Martin Weides

We theoretically investigate the surface plasmon polariton (SPP) at the interface between 3D strong topological insulator (TI) and layered superconductor-magnetic insulator structure. The tunability of SPP through electronic doping can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-05 Mingda Li , Zuyang Dai , Wenping Cui , Zhe Wang , Ferhat Katmis , Peisi Le , Jiayue Wang , Lijun Wu , Yimei Zhu

Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) are collective excitations of free electrons propagating along a metal-dielectric interface. Although some basic quantum properties of SPPs, such as the preservation of entanglement, the wave-particle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-19 Xin-He Jiang , Peng Chen , Kai-Yi Qian , Zhao-zhong Chen , Shu-Qi Xu , Yu-Bo Xie , Shi-Ning Zhu , Xiao-Song Ma

The planar interface of a metal and a hyperbolic, dielectric, structurally chiral material can support the propagation of none, one, or multiple surface-plasmon-polariton (SPP) waves, at a specified frequency and along a specified direction…

Optics · Physics 2014-06-23 Akhlesh Lakhtakia , Muhammad Faryad

Nontrivial topology in bulk matter has been linked with the existence of topologically protected interfacial states. We show that a gaseous plasmon polariton (GPP), an electromagnetic surface wave existing at the boundary of magnetized…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-05-14 Jeffrey B. Parker , J. B. Marston , Steven M. Tobias , Ziyan Zhu

The subwavelength confinement of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) makes them attractive for various applications such as sensing, light generation and solar energy conversion. Near-field microscopy associated with interferometric detection…

We have theoretically and experimentally investigated the dispersion of the cavity-magnon-polariton (CMP) in a 1D configuration, created by inserting a low damping magnetic insulator into a high-quality 1D microwave cavity. By simplifying…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-22 B. M. Yao , Y. S. Gui , Y. Xiao , H. Guo , X. S. Chen , W. Lu , C. L. Chien ,  C. -M. Hu