• DocumentCode
    1968761
  • Title

    Silver nanowire based plasmon propagation, coupling and splitting at 1.55 µm wavelength

  • Author

    Li, Qiang ; Wang, Shanshan ; Chen, Yiting ; Yan, Min ; Tong, Limin ; Qiu, Min

  • Author_Institution
    Lab. of Photonic & Microwave Eng., R. Inst. of Technol. (KTH), Kista, Sweden
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    8-12 Dec. 2010
  • Firstpage
    497
  • Lastpage
    498
  • Abstract
    We experimentally demonstrate silver nanowire based plasmonic devices at optical communication wavelength 1.55 μm. The plasmon propagation loss in a 300 nm diameter silver nanowire is measured to be 0.3 dB/μm. Two types of plasmonic functional devices based on the coupling between two silver nanowires, nano-couplers and nano-splitters, are realized.
  • Keywords
    light propagation; nanophotonics; nanowires; optical beam splitters; optical communication equipment; optical couplers; plasmonics; plasmons; silver; Ag; nanocouplers; nanosplitters; optical communication; plasmon coupling; plasmon propagation loss; plasmon splitting; plasmonic devices; plasmonic functional devices; silver nanowire; size 300 nm; wavelength 1.55 mum; Couplings; Optical coupling; Optical imaging; Optical microscopy; Optical propagation; Plasmons; Silver; component; coupling; plasmonic devices; silver nanowire; surface plasmons polaritons;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibition (ACP), 2010 Asia
  • Conference_Location
    Shanghai
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-7111-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ACP.2010.5682596
  • Filename
    5682596