• 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