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Title: Light squeezing through arbitrarily shaped plasmonic channels and sharp bends

Journal Article · · Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
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  1. Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 (United States)

We propose a mechanism for optical energy squeezing and anomalous light transmission through arbitrarily-shaped plasmonic ultranarrow channels and bends connecting two larger plasmonic metal-insulator-metal waveguides. It is shown how a proper design of subwavelength optical channels at cutoff, patterned by plasmonic implants and connecting larger plasmonic waveguides, may allow enhanced resonant transmission inspired by the anomalous properties of epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) metamaterials. The resonant transmission is shown to be only weakly dependent on the channel length and its specific geometry, such as possible presence of abruptions and bends.

OSTI ID:
21143602
Journal Information:
Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Vol. 78, Issue 3; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.035440; (c) 2008 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1098-0121
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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