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Title: Long-range hybrid ridge and trench plasmonic waveguides

Abstract

We report a class of long-range hybrid plasmon polariton waveguides capable of simultaneously achieving low propagation loss and tight field localization at telecommunication wavelength. The symmetric (quasi-symmetric) hybrid configurations featuring high-refractive-index-contrast near the non-uniform metallic nanostructures enable significantly improved optical performance over conventional hybrid waveguides, exhibiting considerably longer propagation distances and dramatically enhanced figure of merits for similar degrees of confinement. Compared to their traditional long-range plasmonic counterparts, the proposed hybrid waveguides put much less stringent requirements on index-matching conditions, demonstrating nice performance under a wide range of physical dimensions and robust characteristics against certain fabrication imperfections. Studies concerning crosstalk between adjacent identical waveguides further reveal their potential for photonic integrations. In addition, alternative configurations with comparable guiding properties to the structures in our case studies are also proposed, which can potentially serve as attractive prototypes for numerous high-performance nanophotonic components.

Authors:
 [1];  [1]
  1. State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, Department of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871 (China)
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
22304449
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Applied Physics Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 104; Journal Issue: 25; Other Information: (c) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 0003-6951
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; CONFIGURATION; CONFINEMENT; DEFECTS; FABRICATION; HYBRID SYSTEMS; LOSSES; NANOSTRUCTURES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SYMMETRY; WAVEGUIDES; WAVELENGTHS

Citation Formats

Bian, Yusheng, Gong, Qihuang, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing 100871. Long-range hybrid ridge and trench plasmonic waveguides. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.1063/1.4885834.
Bian, Yusheng, Gong, Qihuang, & Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing 100871. Long-range hybrid ridge and trench plasmonic waveguides. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4885834
Bian, Yusheng, Gong, Qihuang, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing 100871. 2014. "Long-range hybrid ridge and trench plasmonic waveguides". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4885834.
@article{osti_22304449,
title = {Long-range hybrid ridge and trench plasmonic waveguides},
author = {Bian, Yusheng and Gong, Qihuang and Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing 100871},
abstractNote = {We report a class of long-range hybrid plasmon polariton waveguides capable of simultaneously achieving low propagation loss and tight field localization at telecommunication wavelength. The symmetric (quasi-symmetric) hybrid configurations featuring high-refractive-index-contrast near the non-uniform metallic nanostructures enable significantly improved optical performance over conventional hybrid waveguides, exhibiting considerably longer propagation distances and dramatically enhanced figure of merits for similar degrees of confinement. Compared to their traditional long-range plasmonic counterparts, the proposed hybrid waveguides put much less stringent requirements on index-matching conditions, demonstrating nice performance under a wide range of physical dimensions and robust characteristics against certain fabrication imperfections. Studies concerning crosstalk between adjacent identical waveguides further reveal their potential for photonic integrations. In addition, alternative configurations with comparable guiding properties to the structures in our case studies are also proposed, which can potentially serve as attractive prototypes for numerous high-performance nanophotonic components.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4885834},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22304449}, journal = {Applied Physics Letters},
issn = {0003-6951},
number = 25,
volume = 104,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jun 23 00:00:00 EDT 2014},
month = {Mon Jun 23 00:00:00 EDT 2014}
}