A rectangular metal-insulator-metal based nanoscale plasmonic resonator

Author

Hosseini, Amir ; Massoud, Yehia

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Rice Univ., Houston, TX

fYear

2007

fDate

2-5 Aug. 2007

Firstpage

81

Lastpage

84

Abstract

We present an optical range resonator based on single mode metal-insulator-metal plasmonic gap waveguides. Near lossless transmission at 90deg bends enables us to design rectangular structures with cross-section area less than 500 nm², which also leads to easing the fabrication process. The resonator exhibits a free spectral range of 270 nm. We show that a small bridge between the resonator and the input waveguide can be used to tune the resonance frequency. In addition, nanoscale add/drop directional couplers are realizable using the presented ring resonator structure.

Keywords

MIM devices; nanotechnology; optical waveguides; plasmonics; resonators; waveguides; fabrication process; metal-insulator-metal nanoscale plasmonic resonator; nanoscale add/drop directional couplers; optical range resonator; plasmonic gap waveguide; rectangular structures; ring resonator structure; Bridges; Metal-insulator structures; Optical device fabrication; Optical losses; Optical resonators; Optical ring resonators; Optical waveguides; Plasmons; Propagation losses; Waveguide discontinuities;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nanotechnology, 2007. IEEE-NANO 2007. 7th IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0607-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0608-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NANO.2007.4601145

Filename

4601145