DocumentCode
689574
Title
Compact antenna for unidirectionally coupling surface plasmons with ultra-broadband and wide-angle efficiency
Author
Kun Li ; Fan Lu ; Zhonghua Wang ; Anshi Xu
Author_Institution
State Key Lab. of Adv. Opt. Commun. Syst. & Networks, Peking Univ., Beijing, China
fYear
2013
fDate
9-14 June 2013
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
2
Abstract
A novel ultra-broadband and wide-angle plasmonic antenna composed of two cascaded sub-gratings is proposed, with ultra-broad spectral full-width-half-maximum (FWHM) of 400 nm and wide angular FWHM of 25°, nearly 4 times greater than that of the periodic reference gratings.
Keywords
diffraction gratings; metamaterial antennas; optical couplers; plasmonics; surface plasmons; cascaded subgratings; periodic reference gratings; ultrabroad spectral full-width-half-maximum; ultrabroadband plasmonic antenna; unidirectionally coupling surface plasmons; wavelength 400 nm; wide-angle plasmonic antenna; Broadband antennas; Broadband communication; Couplings; Gratings; Optimized production technology; Plasmons;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location
San Jose, CA
Type
conf
Filename
6833961
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