DocumentCode
1670454
Title
Efficient coupling to metal-dielectric-metal plasmonic waveguides with subwavelength slit structures
Author
Huang, Yin ; Min, Changjun ; Veronis, Georgios
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA, USA
fYear
2012
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
2
Abstract
We introduce compact micron-scale slit structures for incoupling free space light into subwavelength metal-dielectric-metal plasmonic waveguides. An optimized two-slit coupler leads to ~3.3 transmission enhancement compared to the optimized single-slit coupler.
Keywords
nanophotonics; optical waveguides; plasmonics; surface plasmons; guided transverse electric; mode converters; plasmonic optical nanocircuits; sub-wavelength plasmonic waveguides; surface plasmon amplification; transverse magnetic modes; Couplers; Couplings; Diffraction gratings; Optical waveguides; Periodic structures; Planar waveguides; Plasmons;
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
6326294
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