• 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