Strong Localization of Surface Plasmon Polaritons with Engineered Disorder

Shi, Wen-Bo; Liu, Lian-Zi; Peng, Ruwen; Xu, Di-Hu; Zhang, Kun; Jing, Hao; Fan, Ren-Hao; Huang, Xian-Rong; Wang, Qian-Jin; Wang, Mu

doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b05191

Title: Strong Localization of Surface Plasmon Polaritons with Engineered Disorder

Journal Article · Mon Feb 12 00:00:00 EST 2018 · Nano Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b05191· OSTI ID:1461460

Shi, Wen-Bo ^[1]; Liu, Lian-Zi ^[1];

^[1]; Xu, Di-Hu ^[1]; Zhang, Kun ^[1]; Jing, Hao ^[1]; Fan, Ren-Hao ^[1]; Huang, Xian-Rong ^[2]; Wang, Qian-Jin ^[1]; Wang, Mu ^[1]

Nanjing Univ. (China). National Lab. of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS)

Here in this work, we experimentally demonstrate for the first time strong localization of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) at visible regime in metallic nanogratings with short-range correlated disorder. By increasing the degree of disorder, the confinement of SPPs is significantly enhanced, and the effective SPP propagation length dramatically shrinks. Strong localization of SPPs eventually emerges at visible regime, which is verified by the exponentially decayed fields and the vanishing autocorrelation function of the SPPs. Physically, the short-range correlated disorder induces strong interference among multiple scattered SPPs and provides an adequate fluctuation to effective permittivity, which leads to the localization effect. Finally, our study demonstrates a unique opportunity for disorder engineering to manipulate light on nanoscale and may achieve various applications in random nanolasing, solar energy, and strong light-matter interactions.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1461460

Journal Information:: Nano Letters, Vol. 18, Issue 3; ISSN 1530-6984

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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