• DocumentCode
    1681812
  • Title

    Dynamically routing surface plasmon polaritons along arbitrary trajectories

  • Author

    Zhang, Peng ; Wang, Sheng ; Liu, Yongmin ; Yin, Xiaobo ; Lu, Changgui ; Chen, Zhigang ; Zhang, Xiang

  • Author_Institution
    NSF Nanoscale Sci. & Eng. Center, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We show how surface plasmon polaritons can be routed along arbitrary trajectories by forming nondiffracting Airy beams on metal surfaces. The dynamic computer-based control over such plasmonic Airy beams is successfully demonstrated in our experiment.
  • Keywords
    metals; polaritons; surface plasmons; arbitrary trajectory; dynamic computer-based control; dynamically-routing surface plasmon polaritons; metal surface; nondiffracting airy beams; Metals; Optical surface waves; Optimized production technology; Plasmons; Rough surfaces; Surface waves; Trajectory;
  • 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
    6326730