• DocumentCode
    1668843
  • Title

    Enhanced optical forces in hybrid plasmonic devices

  • Author

    Yang, Xiaodong ; Liu, Yongmin ; Oulton, Rupert F. ; Yin, Xiaobo ; Zhang, Xiang

  • Author_Institution
    NSF Nanoscale Sci. & Eng. Center, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate that the optical force exerted on a suspended dielectric waveguide coupled to a metallic substrate is greatly enhanced compared to dielectric substrate, due to subwavelength optical energy confinement in the hybrid plasmonic mode.
  • Keywords
    optical waveguides; plasmonics; substrates; dielectric substrate; enhanced optical forces; hybrid plasmonic devices; metallic substrate; subwavelength optical energy confinement; suspended dielectric waveguide; Force; Optical coupling; Optical surface waves; Optical waveguides; Plasmons; Substrates;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1839-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6326239
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1668843