Title :
Dispersion control of high-k waves in tapered hyperbolic waveguides
Author :
Kinsey, Nathaniel ; West, Paul R. ; Ferrera, Marcello ; Kildishev, Alexander V. ; Shalaev, Vladimir M. ; Boltasseva, Alexandra
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng. & Birck Nanotechnol. Center, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA
Abstract :
The fundamental problem of efficiently outcoupling high-k waves from hyperbolic metamaterials is approached with an in-plane configuration, and enhanced with adiabatic tapering. This strategy may allow for better efficiency of Purcell enhanced quantum sources.
Keywords :
optical dispersion; optical metamaterials; optical waveguides; quantum optics; Purcell enhanced quantum sources; adiabatic tapering; dispersion control; high-k waves; hyperbolic metamaterials; in-plane configuration; tapered hyperbolic waveguides; Broadband communication; Dielectrics; Dispersion; Filling; Hidden Markov models; High K dielectric materials; Metamaterials;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA