Title :
Plasmon-polariton stripe and slot waveguides - modal patterns
Author :
Satuby, Y. ; Orenstein, Meir
Author_Institution :
Micro-Photonics Lab., EE department, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Technion City, Haifa 32000 Israel ; Tel : + 972 - 4 - 829 4696
Abstract :
Stripes made of 20 nm thick gold layers and the complementary slots (anti stripes) exhibited interesting plasmon-polariton modal characteristics at λ = 1.55 μm. Higher order and localized modes for wide stripes, and unique slot modes are reported.
Keywords :
gold; integrated optics; localised modes; optical waveguides; polaritons; surface plasmons; 1.55 mum; 20 nm; Ag; gold layers; higher order modes; localized modes; modal patterns; plasmon-polariton modal characteristics; plasmon-polariton stripe; slot modes; slot waveguides; surface plasmon polariton; Finite difference methods; Gold; Laser excitation; Optical interconnections; Optical polarization; Optical propagation; Optical waveguides; Slabs; Tellurium; Time domain analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2005. LEOS 2005. The 18th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9217-5
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2005.1547989
