Title :
Highly confined hybrid spoof surface plasmons in ultra-thin metal/dielectric heterostructures
Author :
Mousavi, S. Hossein ; Khanikaev, Alexander B. ; Neuner, Burton, III ; Ferro, Gabriel ; Shvets, Gennady
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
Abstract :
Highly confined "spoof" surface plasmons (SSPs) are predicted and observed in a perforated metal film coated with a thin dielectric layer. They are better confined than conventional guided modes and conventional SSPs and are controllable by the perforations geometry.
Keywords :
dielectric thin films; metallic thin films; surface plasmons; guided modes; highly confined hybrid spoof surface plasmons; perforated metal film; perforation geometry; thin dielectric layer; ultrathin metal-dielectric heterostructures; Electromagnetics; Geometry; Metals; Optical diffraction; Optical surface waves; Plasmons; Surface waves;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
