Title :
Plasmonic nanocircuitry with embedded subwavelength waveguides and Yagi-style antennas
Author :
Kriesch, Arian ; Burgos, Stanley ; Ploss, Daniel ; Wen, Jing ; Peschel, Ulf ; Atwater, Harry A.
Author_Institution :
Nonlinear Opt. & Nanophotonics, Max Planck Inst. for the Sci. of Light, Erlangen, Germany
Abstract :
High confinement in plasmonic waveguides usually comes along with high loss. We present experiments on a new approach, which allows to tune adiabatically between high confinement and low loss waveguides, connected to optical Yagi-style antennas.
Keywords :
Yagi antenna arrays; nanophotonics; optical waveguides; plasmonics; embedded subwavelength waveguides; optical Yagi-style antennas; plasmonic nanocircuitry; plasmonic waveguides; Antennas; Optical device fabrication; Optical losses; Optical waveguides; Plasmons; Waveguide discontinuities;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
