Wavelength-dependent transmission through sharp 90° bends in sub-wavelength metallic slot waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 16139-16145

  Mason, Daniel R ^a   Gramotnev, Dmitri K ^b   Kim, Kwang S ^a  

^a Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^b Nanophotonics Pty Ltd   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WAVEGUIDES;

GEOMETRICAL PARAMETERS; LEAKY MODES; METAL WAVEGUIDES; NUMERICAL STUDIES; PLASMON WAVELENGTH; SLOT WAVEGUIDE; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SUB-WAVELENGTH LOCALIZATION;

TWO DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 77954923635     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.016139     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Plasmonic Nanoguides and Circuits, S. I. Bozhevolnyi, ed. (Pan Stanford Pub. Pte. Ltd., 2009).
2. D. K. Gramotnev, and S. I. Bozhevolnyi, "Plasmonics beyond the diffraction limit," Nat. Photonics 4(2), 83-91 (2010).
3. I. V. Novikov, and A. A. Maradudin, "Channel polaritons," Phys. Rev. B 66(3), 035403 (2002).
4. D. F. P. Pile, and D. K. Gramotnev, "Channel plasmon-polariton in a triangular groove on a metal surface," Opt. Lett. 29(10), 1069-1071 (2004).
5. D. K. Gramotnev, and D. F. P. Pile, "Single-mode subwavelength waveguide with channel plasmon-polaritons in triangular grooves on a metal surface," Appl. Phys. Lett. 85(26), 6323-6325 (2004).
6. S. I. Bozhevolnyi, V. S. Volkov, E. Devaux, and T. W. Ebbesen, "Channel plasmon-polariton guiding by subwavelength metal grooves," Phys. Rev. Lett. 95(4), 046802 (2005).
7. V. S. Volkov, S. I. Bozhevolnyi, E. Devaux, and T. W. Ebbesen, "Bend loss for channel plasmon polaritons," Appl. Phys. Lett. 89(14), 143108 (2006).
8. S. I. Bozhevolnyi, V. S. Volkov, E. Devaux, J. Y. Laluet, and T. W. Ebbesen, "Channel plasmon subwavelength waveguide components including interferometers and ring resonators," Nature 440(7083), 508-511 (2006).
9. M. Yan, and M. Qiu, "Guided plasmon polariton at 2D metal corners," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 24(9), 2333-2342 (2007).
10. S. I. Bozhevolnyi, and K. V. Nerkararyan, "Analytic description of channel plasmon polaritons," Opt. Lett. 34(13), 2039-2041 (2009).
11. L. Liu, Z. Han, and S. He, "Novel surface plasmon waveguide for high integration," Opt. Express 13(17), 6645-6650 (2005).
12. G. Veronis, and S. Fan, "Guided subwavelength plasmonic mode supported by a slot in a thin metal film," Opt. Lett. 30(24), 3359-3361 (2005).
13. D. F. P. Pile, T. Ogawa, D. K. Gramotnev, Y. Matsuzaki, K. C. Vemon, K. Yamaguchi, T. Okamoto, M. Haraguchi, and M. Fukui, "Two-dimensionally localized modes of a nanoscale gap plasmon waveguide," Appl. Phys. Lett. 87(26), 261114 (2005).
14. G. Veronis, and S. Fan, "Modes of subwavelength plasmonic slot waveguides," J. Lightwave Technol. 25(9), 2511-2521 (2007).
15. D. F. P. Pile, D. K. Gramotnev, R. F. Oulton, and X. Zhang, "On long-range plasmonic modes in metallic gaps," Opt. Express 15(21), 13669-13674 (2007).
16. K. C. Vernon, D. K. Gramotnev, and D. F. P. Pile, "Channel plasmon-polariton modes in V grooves filled with, dielectric," J. Appl. Phys. 103(3), 034304 (2008).
17. D. F. P. Pile, and D. K. Gramotnev, "Plasmonic subwavelength waveguides: next to zero losses at sharp bends," Opt. Lett. 30(10), 1186-1188 (2005).
18. L. Chen, B. Wang, and G. P. Wang, "High efficiency 90° bending metal heterowaveguides for nanophotonic integration," Appl. Phys. Lett. 89(24), 243120 (2006).
19. G. Veronis, and S. Fan, "Bends and splitters in metal-dielectric- metal subwavelength plasmonic waveguides," Appl. Phys. Lett. 87(13), 131102 (2005).
20. T. W. Lee, and S. K. Gray, "Subwavelength light bending by metal slit structures," Opt. Express 13(24), 9652-9659 (2005).
21. Rsoft Design Group, RsoftFullWAVE version 8.2. http://www.rsoftdesign.com
22. A. D. Rakic, A. B. Djurišic, J. M. Elazar, and M. L. Majewski, "Optical properties of metallic films for verticalcavity optoelectronic devices," Appl. Opt. 37(22), 5271-5283 (1998).