Terahertz plasmonic waveguides created via 3D printing

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 24422-24430

  Pandey, Shashank ^a   Gupta, Barun ^b   Nahata, Ajay ^a  

^a University of Utah   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D PRINTERS; FABRICATION; GOLD DEPOSITS; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLASMONS; PRINTING; SPECTROSCOPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WAVEGUIDES;

COMPLEX GEOMETRIES; OUT-OF-PLANE; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; POLYMER RESINS; PROPAGATION PROPERTIES; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; THZ TIME DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY; UNDERLYING LAYERS;

GOLD;

EID: 84886378573     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.024422     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. E. Ozbay, "Plasmonics: Merging photonics and electronics at nanoscale dimensions," Science 311(5758), 189-193 (2006).
2. J. A. Schuller, E. S. Barnard, W. Cai, Y. C. Jun, J. S. White, and M. L. Brongersma, "Plasmonics for extreme light concentration and manipulation," Nat. Mater. 9(3), 193-204 (2010).
3. J. B. Pendry, L. Martín-Moreno, and F. J. Garcia-Vidal, "Mimicking surface plasmons with structured surfaces," Science 305(5685), 847-848 (2004).
4. F. J. Garcia-Vidal, L. Martin-Moreno, and J. B. Pendry, "Surfaces with holes in them: new plasmonic metamaterials," J. Opt. A, Pure Appl. Opt. 7(2), S97-S101 (2005).
5. S. A. Maier, S. R. Andrews, L. Martín-Moreno, and F. J. García-Vidal, "Terahertz surface plasmon-polariton propagation and focusing on periodically corrugated metal wires," Phys. Rev. Lett. 97(17), 176805 (2006).
6. A. P. Hibbins, B. R. Evans, and J. R. Sambles, "Experimental verification of designer surface plasmons," Science 308(5722), 670-672 (2005).
7. A. Agrawal, Z. V. Vardeny, and A. Nahata, "Engineering the dielectric function of plasmonic lattices," Opt. Express 16(13), 9601-9613 (2008).
8. M. Tonouchi, "Cutting-edge terahertz technology," Nat. Photonics 1(2), 97-105 (2007).
9. R. Mendis and D. Grischkowsky, "Undistorted guided-wave propagation of subpicosecond terahertz pulses," Opt. Lett. 26(11), 846-848 (2001).
10. J. A. Harrington, R. George, P. Pedersen, and E. Mueller, "Hollow polycarbonate waveguides with inner Cu coatings for delivery of terahertz radiation," Opt. Express 12(21), 5263-5268 (2004).
11. K. Wang and D. M. Mittleman, "Metal wires for terahertz wave guiding," Nature 432(7015), 376-379 (2004).
12. W. Zhu, A. Agrawal, and A. Nahata, "Planar plasmonic terahertz guided-wave devices," Opt. Express 16(9), 6216-6226 (2008).
13. D. Martin-Cano, M. L. Nesterov, A. I. Fernandez-Dominguez, F. J. Garcia-Vidal, L. Martin-Moreno, and E. Moreno, "Domino plasmons for subwavelength terahertz circuitry," Opt. Express 18(2), 754-764 (2010).
14. W. Zhao, O. M. Eldaiki, R. Yang, and Z. Lu, "Deep subwavelength waveguiding and focusing based on designer surface plasmons," Opt. Express 18(20), 21498-21503 (2010).
15. G. Kumar, S. Pandey, A. Cui, and A. Nahata, "Planar plasmonic terahertz waveguides based on periodically corrugated films," New J. Phys. 13(3), 033024 (2011).
16. X. Gao, J. H. Shi, X. Shen, H. F. Ma, W. X. Jiang, L. Li, and T. J. Cui, "Ultrathin dual-band surface plasmonic polariton waveguide and frequency splitter in microwave frequencies," Appl. Phys. Lett. 102(15), 151912 (2013).
17. Z. Wu, J. Kinast, M. E. Gehm, and H. Xin, "Rapid and inexpensive fabrication of terahertz electromagnetic bandgap structures," Opt. Express 16(21), 16442-16451 (2008).
18. Z. Wu, W.-R. Ng, M. E. Gehm, and H. Xin, "Terahertz electromagnetic crystal waveguide fabricated by polymer jetting rapid prototyping," Opt. Express 19(5), 3962-3972 (2011).
19. J. Liu, R. Mendis, and D. M. Mittleman, "A Maxwell's fish eye lens for the terahertz region," Appl. Phys. Lett. 103(3), 031104 (2013).
20. X. Shou, A. Agrawal, and A. Nahata, "Role of metal film thickness on the enhanced transmission properties of a periodic array of subwavelength apertures," Opt. Express 13(24), 9834-9840 (2005).
21. A. Nahata and W. Zhu, "Electric field vector characterization of terahertz surface plasmons," Opt. Express 15(9), 5616-5624 (2007).
22. T. Matsui, A. Agrawal, A. Nahata, and Z. V. Vardeny, "Transmission resonances through aperiodic arrays of subwavelength apertures," Nature 446(7135), 517-521 (2007).