Hybrid metal-dielectric photonic crystals with enhanced plasmonic-photonic interaction

Author

Bahrami, M. Reza ; Lobaz, Volodymyr ; Peukert, Wolfgang ; Korovin, Alexander V. ; Peschel, Ulf ; Romanov, Sergei G.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Opt., Inf. & Photonics, Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

fYear

2011

fDate

26-30 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Control on the optical response of 2-dimensional colloidal photonic crystals was achieved by combining them with thin metal films. In such hybrids the light transport depends on the parameters of the sphere lattice and the topology of the metal film. This approach allows mixing Bloch modes and surface plasmon polariton modes in the total optical response of hybrid architectures. Stronger modification of the hybrid´s optical properties was achieved in the case of tighter light confinement.

Keywords

metallic thin films; optical lattices; optical properties; photonic crystals; polaritons; surface plasmons; 2-dimensional colloidal photonic crystals; Bloch modes; hybrid metal-dielectric photonic crystals; hybrid optical properties; light transport; optical response; plasmonic-photonic interaction; sphere lattice; surface plasmon polariton modes; thin metal films; Couplings; Fabry-Perot; Films; Metals; Photonic crystals; Photonics; Plasmons; hybrid photonic crystal; optical transmission; surface plasmon polariton;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2011 13th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Stockholm

ISSN

2161-2056

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0881-7

Electronic_ISBN

2161-2056

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2011.5971083

Filename

5971083