Propagation of light in serially coupled plasmonic nanowire dimer: Geometry dependence and polarization control

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Singh, Danveer ^a   Raghuwanshi, Mohit ^a   Pavan Kumar, G V ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM SPLITTING; INCIDENT LIGHT; PLASMONIC; POLARIZATION CONTROL; POLARIZATION STUDY; SILVER NANOWIRES;

NANOWIRES; PLASMONS; SILVER;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 84866342395     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4752718     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. L. Novotny and B. Hecht, Principles of Nano-Optics (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
2. Plasmonic Nanoguides and Circuits, edited by, S. I. Bozhevolnyi, (Pan Stanford Publishing Pte, Ltd., Singapore, 2009).
3. Surface Plasmon Nanophotonics, Springer Series in Optical Sciences Vol. 131., edited by, P. G. Kik, and, M. L. Brongersma, (Springer, Dordrecht, 2007).
4. W. L. Barnes, A. Dereux, and T. W. Ebbesen, Nature 424, 824-830 (2003). 10.1038/nature01937
5. S. A. Maier, Plasmonics: Fundamentals and Applications (Springer, New York, 2007).
6. T. W. Ebbesen, C. Genet, and S. I. Bozhevolnyi, Phys. Today 61 (5), 44-50 (2008). 10.1063/1.2930735
7. S. Lal, S. Link, and N. J. Halas, Nature Photon. 1, 641-648 (2007). 10.1038/nphoton.2007.223
8. H. Ditlbacher, A. Hohenau, D. Wagner, U. Kreibig, M. Rogers, F. Hofer, F. R. Aussenegg, and J. R. Krenn, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 257403 (2005). 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.257403
9. A. W. Sanders, D. A. Routenberg, B. J. Wiley, Y. Xia, E. R. Dufresne, and M. A. Reed, Nano Lett. 6, 1822-1826 (2006). 10.1021/nl052471v
10. A. V. Akimov, A. Mukherjee, C. L. Yu, D. E. Chang, A. S. Zibrov, P. R. Hemmer, H. Park, and M. D. Lukin, Nature 450, 402-406 (2007). 10.1038/nature06230
11. A. L. Pyayt, B. Wiley, Y. Xia, A. Chen, and L. Dalton, Nat. Nanotechnol. 3, 660-665 (2008). 10.1038/nnano.2008.281
12. R. Yan, P. Pausauskie, J. Huang, and P. Yang, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 106, 21045-21050 (2009). 10.1073/pnas.0902064106
13. Y. Fang, Z. Li, Y. Huang, S. Zhang, P. Nordlander, N. J. Halas, and H. Xu, Nano Lett. 10, 1950-1954 (2010). 10.1021/nl101168u
14. W. Wang, Q. Yang, F. Fan, H. Xu, and Z. L. Wang, Nano Lett. 11, 1603-1608 (2011). 10.1021/nl104514m
15. R. Chikkaraddy, D. Singh, and G. V. P. Kumar, Appl. Phys. Lett. 100, 043108 (2012). 10.1063/1.3679649
16. C. L. Zou, F. W. Sun, Y. F. Xiao, C. H. Dong, X. D. Chen, J. M. Cui, Q. Gong, Z. F. Han, and G. C. Guo, Appl. Phys. Lett. 97, 183102 (2010). 10.1063/1.3509415
17. H. Wei, Z. Wang, X. Tian, M. Kall, and H. Xu, Nat. Commun. 2, 387 (2011). 10.1038/ncomms1388
18. J. L. Seung, M. B. Jeong, and M. Moskovits, Nano Lett. 8, 3244-3247 (2008). 10.1021/nl801603j
19. J. M. Baik, S. J. Lee, and M. Moskovits, Nano Lett. 9, 672-676 (2009). 10.1021/nl803145d
20. Y. Fang, H. Wei, F. Hao, P. Nordlander, and H. Xu, Nano Lett. 9, 2049-2053 (2009). 10.1021/nl900321e
21. T. Shegai, Y. Huang, H. Xu, and M. Kall, Appl. Phys. Lett. 96, 103114 (2010). 10.1063/1.3355545
22. S. Zhang, H. Wei, K. Bao, U. Hakanson, N. J. Halas, P. Nordlander, and H. Xu, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 096801 (2011). 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.096801
23. See supplementary material at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4752718 E-APPLAB-101-004239 for details of Ag NW preparation, optical measurements, dark-field optical images of various Ag NW dimer, angle dependent propagation images, and physical interpretation of plasmon propagation in Ag NW.
24. D. E. Chang, A. S. Sarensen, P. R. Hemmer, and M. D. Lukin, Phys. Rev. B 76, 035420 (2007). 10.1103/PhysRevB.76.035420
25. S. Sidorenko and O. J. F. Martin, Opt. Express 15, 6380-6388 (2007). 10.1364/OE.15.006380