We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Asymmetric hybrid plasmonic waveguides with centimeter-scale propagation length under subwavelength confinement for photonic components.
- Authors
Wei, Wei; Zhang, Xia; Ren, Xiaomin
- Abstract
An asymmetric hybrid plasmonic metal-wire waveguide is proposed by combining the advantages of symmetric and hybrid plasmonic modes. The idea of asymmetric structure eliminates the adverse effect of a substrate and enhances the optical performance of the waveguide. The guiding properties of the proposed waveguide are intensively investigated using the finite elements method. The results exhibit a quite long propagation length of 2.69 cm with subwavelength confinement. More importantly, an extremely large figure of merit of 139037 is achieved. Furthermore, the proposed waveguides can be used as directional couplers. They can achieve a coupling length of only 1.01 μm at S = 0.1 μm with negligible loss. A strong dependence of coupling length on the operating wavelength makes the proposed waveguide promising for realizing wavelength-selective components at telecommunication wavelengths.
- Subjects
PLASMA waveguides; PHOTONICS; CENTIMETER waves; WAVELENGTHS; THEORY of wave motion; FINITE element method
- Publication
Nanoscale Research Letters, 2014, Vol 9, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1931-7573
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/1556-276X-9-599