• DocumentCode
    499675
  • Title

    Aperture-coupled plasmonic ring resonators with submicron bending radii

  • Author

    Han, Z. ; Van, V. ; Herman, W.N. ; Ho, P.-T.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    2-4 June 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We propose and investigate ultracompact aperture-coupled metallic ring resonators with submicron radii based on strongly-confined plasmonic waveguides. Simulations showed 500 nm-radius ring resonators can be obtained with low insertion loss and modal volume of only 0.085(lambda0/neff)3.
  • Keywords
    optical couplers; optical losses; optical resonators; plasmonics; aperture-coupled plasmonic ring resonators; confined plasmonic waveguides; insertion loss; modal volume; radius 500 nm; submicron bending radii; Apertures; Light scattering; Optical resonators; Optical ring resonators; Optical scattering; Optical waveguides; Particle scattering; Plasmons; Propagation losses; Resonance light scattering; (230.5750) Resonators; (240.6680) Surface plasmons; (250.5403) Plasmonics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-869-8
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-869-8
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5224957