Numerical analysis of deep sub-wavelength integrated plasmonic devices based on semiconductor-insulator-metal strip waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 18945-18959

  Zhang, Xiao Yang ^a,b   Hu, A ^a,b   Wen, J Z ^b   Zhang, Tong ^a   Xue, Xiao Jun ^a   Zhou, Y ^b   Duley, W W ^b  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC LOSSES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PLASMONS; SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETRY; SEMICONDUCTOR INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; STRIP METAL; WAVEGUIDES;

BENT WAVEGUIDES; COMMUNICATION APPLICATION; COUPLING LENGTH; DISPERSION PROPERTIES; FUNCTIONAL SIZE; FUNDAMENTAL MODES; INTEGRATED PHOTONIC DEVICES; LOW INSERTION LOSS; METAL STRIPS; NANO SCALE; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC DEVICES; RADIATION LOSS; RING RESONATOR; SUB-WAVELENGTH; TELECOM WAVELENGTHS;

PHOTONIC DEVICES;

EID: 77956363009     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.018945     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. W. L. Barnes, A. Dereux, and T. W. Ebbesen, "Surface plasmon subwavelength optics," Nature 424(6950), 824-830 (2003).
2. S. Lal, S. Link, and N. J. Halas, "Nano-optics from sensing to waveguiding," Nat. Photonics 1(11), 641-648 (2007).
3. V. R. Almeida, Q. Xu, C. A. Barrios, and M. Lipson, "Guiding and confining light in void nanostructure," Opt. Lett. 29(11), 1209-1211 (2004).
4. A. H. J. Yang, S. D. Moore, B. S. Schmidt, M. Klug, M. Lipson, and D. Erickson, "Optical manipulation of nanoparticles and biomolecules in sub-wavelength slot waveguides," Nature 457(7225), 71-75 (2009).
5. A. H. J. Yang, T. Lerdsuchatawanich, and D. Erickson, "Forces and transport velocities for a particle in a slot waveguide," Nano Lett. 9(3), 1182-1188 (2009).
6. B. Desiatov, I. Goykhman, and U. Levy, "Nanoscale mode selector in silicon waveguide for on chip nanofocusing applications," Nano Lett. 9(10), 3381-3386 (2009).
7. S. Mandal, X. Serey, and D. Erickson, "Nanomanipulation using silicon photonic crystal resonators," Nano Lett. 10(1), 99-104 (2010).
8. J. Takahara, S. Yamagishi, H. Taki, A. Morimoto, and T. Kobayashi, "Guiding of a one-dimensional optical beam with nanometer diameter," Opt. Lett. 22(7), 475-477 (1997).
9. T. Nikolajsen, K. Leosson, and S. I. Bozhevolnyi, "Surface plasmon polariton based modulators and switches operating at telecom wavelengths," Appl. Phys. Lett. 85(24), 5833-5835 (2004).
10. X. Y. Zhang, A. Hu, T. Zhang, X. J. Xue, J. Z. Wen, and W. W. Duley, "Subwavelength plasmonic waveguides based on ZnO nanowires and nanotubes: A theoretical study of thermo-optical properties," Appl. Phys. Lett. 96(4), 043109 (2010).
11. L. Liu, Z. Han, and S. He, "Novel surface plasmon waveguide for high integration," Opt. Express 13(17), 6645-6650 (2005).
12. H. T. Miyazaki, and Y. Kurokawa, "Squeezing visible light waves into a 3-nm-thick and 55-nm-long plasmon cavity," Phys. Rev. Lett. 96(9), 097401 (2006).
13. A. Polman, "Applied physics. Plasmonics applied," Science 322(5903), 868-869 (2008).
14. A. Hosseini, and Y. Massoud, "Nanoscale surface plasmon based resonator using rectangular geometry," Appl. Phys. Lett. 90(18), 181102 (2007).
15. Z. Han, V. Van, W. N. Herman, and P.-T. Ho, "Aperture-coupled MIM plasmonic ring resonators with subdiffraction modal volumes," Opt. Express 17(15), 12678-12684 (2009), http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI= oe-17-15-12678.
16. R. F. Oulton, V. J. Sorger, D. A. Genov, D. F. P. Pile, and X. Zhang, "A hybrid plasmonic waveguide for subwavelength confinement and long-range propagation," Nat. Photonics 2(8), 496-500 (2008).
17. R. F. Oulton, V. J. Sorger, T. Zentgraf, R. M. Ma, C. Gladden, L. Dai, G. Bartal, and X. Zhang, "Plasmon lasers at deep subwavelength scale," Nature 461(7264), 629-632 (2009).
18. R. Salvador, A. Martínez, C. Garía-Meca, R. Ortuño, and J. Martí, "Analysis of hybrid dielectric plasmonic waveguides," IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 14(6), 1496-1501 (2008).
19. 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).
20. E. Verhagen, J. A. Dionne, L. K. Kuipers, H. A. Atwater, and A. Polman, "Near-field visualization of strongly confined surface plasmon polaritons in metal-insulator-metal waveguides," Nano Lett. 8(9), 2925-2929 (2008).
21. J. Tian, S. Yu, W. Yan, and M. Qiu, "Broadband high-efficiency surface-plasmon-polariton coupler with siliconmetal interface," Appl. Phys. Lett. 95(1), 013504 (2009).
22. P. Nagpal, N. C. Lindquist, S.-H. Oh, and D. J. Norris, "Ultrasmooth patterned metals for plasmonics and metamaterials," Science 325(5940), 594-597 (2009).
23. E. Moreno, S. G. Rodrigo, S. I. Bozhevolnyi, L. Martín-Moreno, and F. J. García-Vidal, "Guiding and focusing of electromagnetic fields with wedge plasmon polaritons," Phys. Rev. Lett. 100(2), 023901 (2008).
24. A. V. Krasavin, and A. V. Zayats, "Three-dimensional numerical modeling of photonic integration with dielectric-loaded SPP waveguides," Phys. Rev. B 78(4), 045425 (2008).
25. O. Tsilipakos, T. V. Yioultsis, and E. E. Kriezis, "Theoretical analysis of thermally tunable microring resonator filters made of dielectric-loaded plasmonic waveguides," J. Appl. Phys. 106(9), 093109 (2009).
26. V. J. Sorger, R. F. Oulton, J. Yao, G. Bartal, and X. Zhang, "Plasmonic Fabry-Pérot nanocavity," Nano Lett. 9(10), 3489-3493 (2009).
27. Z. Zheng, M. Iqbal, and J. Liu, "Dispersion characteristics of SOI-based slot optical waveguides," Opt. Commun. 281(20), 5151-5155 (2008).
28. A. Vial, A.-S. Grimault, D. Macías, D. Barchiesi, and M. L. D. L. Chapelle, "Improved analytical fit of gold dispersion: Application to the modeling of extinction spectra with a finite-difference time-domain method," Phys. Rev. B 71(8), 085416 (2005).
29. P. B. Johnson, and R. W. Christy, "Optical constants of the noble metals," Phys. Rev. B 6(12), 4370-4379 (1972).
30. J. E. Toney, "Implementation of a paraxial optical propagation method for large photonic devices," in Proceedings of the COMSOL Conference Boston 2009, (unpublished).
31. R. Wan, F. Liu, X. Tang, Y. Huang, and J. Peng, "Vertical coupling between short range surface plasmon polariton mode and dielectric waveguide mode," Appl. Phys. Lett. 94(14), 141104 (2009).
32. L. Liu, R. Kumar, K. Huybrechts, T. Spuesens, G. Roelkens, E.-J. Geluk, T. de Vries, P. Regreny, D. Van Thourhout, R. Baets, and G. Morthier, "An ultra-small, low-power, all-optical flip-flop memory on a silicon chip," Nat. Photonics 4(3), 182-187 (2010).
33. T. Carmon, and K. J. Vahala, "Visible continuous emission from a silicamicrophotonic device by third-harmonic generation," Nat. Phys. 3(6), 430-435 (2007).
34. G. S. Wiederhecker, L. Chen, A. Gondarenko, and M. Lipson, "Controlling photonic structures using optical forces," Nature 462(7273), 633-636 (2009).
35. F. Zhang, and J. W. Y. Lit, "Direct-coupling single-mode fiber ring resonator," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 5(8), 1347-1355 (1988).
36. A. Majkić, M. Koechlin, G. Poberaj, and P. Günter, "Optical microring resonators in fluorineimplanted lithium niobate," Opt. Express 16(12), 8769-8779 (2008), http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract. cfm?URI=OE-16-12-8769.
37. D. Goldring, U. Levy, and D. Mendlovic, "Highly dispersive micro-ring resonator based on one dimensional photonic crystal waveguide design and analysis," Opt. Express 15(6), 3156-3168 (2007), http://www. opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-15-6-3156.