A fork-shaped plasmonic device with polarization-controllable optical confinement

Mohammed Nadhim Abbas; M. H. Shih; Yia-Chung Chang

doi:10.1117/12.929405

9 October 2012 A fork-shaped plasmonic device with polarization-controllable optical confinement

Mohammed Nadhim Abbas, M. H. Shih, Yia-Chung Chang

Proceedings Volume 8457, Plasmonics: Metallic Nanostructures and Their Optical Properties X; 84572E (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.929405
Event: SPIE NanoScience + Engineering, 2012, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

It is shown that fork-shaped plasmonic gratings can display a hybrid mode that features both plasmonic mode (TMmode) and dielectric mode (TE-mode) characteristics with wide range of tunable group velocities. A dielectric gap is introduced in the middle of metallic grating and it is found that this gap plays an important role in controlling the TE-TM mode coupling. By controlling the polarization angle we can switch from plasmonic mode to dielectric mode. Thus, a new scheme for manipulating the optical confinement by using a polarizer is realized. (see Figure) We can combine the plasmonic mode and dielectric mode to reduce the intrinsic loss of Plasmon-polariton due to the free-carrier absorption in the conducting material with the same degree of confinement. The fork structure provides an easier way to control the group velocity in a wide range. The dispersion relations were calculated by using Rigorous Coupled Wave Analysis. We obtain tunable group velocities ranging from 0.2c to almost zero (i.e. achieving localized Surface Plasmon-polariton) and from 0.05c to 0.3c by varying the pillar and dielectric (made of Si₃N₄) thicknesses respectively. This fork structure is expected to have applications in surface plasmon polariton (SPP) mixed with guided-mode based optical devices, such as optical buffering, hybrid waveguides, splitters and lasers and especially for applications requiring slow light propagation.

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Mohammed Nadhim Abbas, M. H. Shih, and Yia-Chung Chang "A fork-shaped plasmonic device with polarization-controllable optical confinement", Proc. SPIE 8457, Plasmonics: Metallic Nanostructures and Their Optical Properties X, 84572E (9 October 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.929405

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