Surface wave splitter based on metallic gratings with sub-wavelength aperture

doi:10.1364/OE.16.019091

Surface wave splitter based on metallic gratings with sub-wavelength aperture

Humeyra Caglayan and Ekmel Ozbay »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 16, Issue 23, pp. 19091-19096 (2008)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.16.019091

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Abstract

We investigated the splitting of surface electromagnetic waves trapped at the output surface of a one-dimensional metallic grating structure. The output gratings of the structure asymmetrically such that the output surfaces at the different sides of the subwavelength aperture can support surface waves at different frequencies. The transmission amplitude as measured at the left side is 1,000 times of that at the right side at 16 GHz. At 24 GHz, the transmission measured at the right side is 20 times that of the left side of the structure. Therefore, surface waves are guided into the different sides of the aperture at different frequencies via metallic gratings. The experimental results are in agreement with the theoretical results.

OCIS Codes
(240.0240) Optics at surfaces : Optics at surfaces
(240.6690) Optics at surfaces : Surface waves

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Optics at Surfaces

History
Original Manuscript: September 12, 2008
Revised Manuscript: October 31, 2008
Manuscript Accepted: November 3, 2008
Published: November 4, 2008

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Humeyra Caglayan and Ekmel Ozbay, "Surface wave splitter based on metallic gratings with sub-wavelength aperture," Opt. Express 16, 19091-19096 (2008)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-16-23-19091

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H. Caglayan, I. Bulu, and E. Ozbay, "Beaming of electromagnetic waves emitted through a subwavelength annular aperture," J. Opt. Soc. B 23, 419 (2006). [CrossRef]
M. J. Lockyear, A. P. Hibbins, J. R. Sambles, and C. R. Lawrence, "Surface-topography-induced enhanced transmission and directivity of microwave radiation through a subwavelength circular metal aperture," Appl. Phys. Lett. 84, 2040 (2004). [CrossRef]
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Akarca-Biyikli, S. S.
Baida, F.I.
Bartoli, F. J.
Bravo-Abad, J.
Bulu, I.
Caglayan, H.
Chang, Y. C.
Chen, L.
Chen, Y. C.
Degiron, A.
Devaux, E.
Ding, Y. J.
Ebbesen, T. W.
Fu, Z.
Gana, Q.
Garcia-Vidal, F. J.
Guo, B.
Hibbins, A. P.
Hoffmann, P.
Huang, K. T.
Lawrence, C. R.
Lee, C. K.
Lezec, H. J.
Liaw, J. W.
Lin, D. Z.
Linke, R. A.
Liu, J. M.
Lockyear, M. J.
Martin-Moreno, L.
Ozbay, E.
Pendry, J. B.
Perentes, A.
Poujet, Y.
Roussey, M.
Salvi, J.
Sambles, J. R.
Santschi, C.
Song, G.
Van Labeke, D.
Yeh, C. S.
Yeh, J. T.
Yu, L. B.

Appl. Phys. Lett.

M. J. Lockyear, A. P. Hibbins, J. R. Sambles, and C. R. Lawrence, "Surface-topography-induced enhanced transmission and directivity of microwave radiation through a subwavelength circular metal aperture," Appl. Phys. Lett. 84, 2040 (2004). [CrossRef]
F. J. Garcia-Vidal, L. Martin-Moreno, H. J. Lezec, and T. W. Ebbesen, "Focusing light with a single subwavelength aperture flanked by surface corrugations," Appl. Phys. Lett. 83, 4500 (2003). [CrossRef]
H. Caglayan, I. Bulu, and E. Ozbay "Off-axis directional beaming via photonic crystal surface modes," Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 092114 (2008). [CrossRef]
Q. Gana, B. Guo, G. Song, L. Chen, Z. Fu, Y. J. Ding, and F. J. Bartoli, "Plasmonic surface-wave splitter," Appl. Phys. Lett. 90, 161130 (2007). [CrossRef]

J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt.

F. J. Garcia-Vidal, L. Martin-Moreno and J. B. Pendry, "Surface with holes in them: new plasmonic metamaterials," J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt. 7, S97 (2005). [CrossRef]
S. S. Akarca-Biyikli, I. Bulu, and E. Ozbay, "Resonant excitation of surface plasmons in one-dimensional metallic grating structures at microwave frequencies," J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt. 7, 159 (2005). [CrossRef]

J. Opt. Soc. B

H. Caglayan, I. Bulu, and E. Ozbay, "Beaming of electromagnetic waves emitted through a subwavelength annular aperture," J. Opt. Soc. B 23, 419 (2006). [CrossRef]

Photon. Nanostruct.

J. Bravo-Abada, F. J. Garcia-Vidal, and L. Martin-Moreno, "Wavelength de-multiplexing properties of a single aperture flanked by periodic arrays of indentations," Photon. Nanostruct. 1, 55 (2003). [CrossRef]
Y. Poujet, M. Roussey, J. Salvi, F.I. Baida, D. Van Labeke, A. Perentes, C. Santschi, and P. Hoffmann, "Super-transmission of light through subwavelength annular aperture arrays in metallic films: Spectral analysis and near-field optical images in the visible range," Photon. Nanostruct. 4, 47 (2006). [CrossRef]

Phys. Rev. B

L. B. Yu, D. Z. Lin, Y. C. Chen, Y. C. Chang, K. T. Huang, J. W. Liaw, J. T. Yeh, J. M. Liu, C. S. Yeh, and C. K. Lee, "Physical origin of directional beaming emitted from a subwavelength slit," Phys. Rev. B 71, 041405 (2005). [CrossRef]

Phys. Rev. Lett.

L. Martin-Moreno, F. J. Garcia-Vidal, H. J. Lezec, A. Degiron, and T. W. Ebbesen, "Theory of Highly Directional Emission from a Single Subwavelength Aperture Surrounded by Surface Corrugations," Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 167401 (2003). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Science

E. Ozbay, "Plasmonics: Merging Photonics and Electronics at Nanoscale Dimensions," Science 311, 189 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
H. J. Lezec, A. Degiron, E. Devaux, R. A. Linke, L. Martin-Moreno, F. J. Garcia-Vidal, and T. W. Ebbesen, "Beaming light from a subwavelength aperture," Science 297, 820 (2002). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Other

H. Raether, Surface Plasmons on Smooth and Rough Surfaces and on Gratings (Springer-Verlag, 1988).

2008, Caglayan, Appl. Phys. Lett.
2007, Gana, Appl. Phys. Lett.
2006, Ozbay, Science
2006, Caglayan, J. Opt. Soc. B
2006, Poujet, Photon. Nanostruct.
2005, Akarca-Biyikli, J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt.
2005, Yu, Phys. Rev. B
2005, Garcia-Vidal, J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt.
2004, Lockyear, Appl. Phys. Lett.
2003, Garcia-Vidal, Appl. Phys. Lett.
2003, Martin-Moreno, Phys. Rev. Lett.
2003, Bravo-Abad, Photon. Nanostruct.
2002, Lezec, Science

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