Subwavelength electromagnetic dynamics in stacked complementary plasmonic crystal slabs

doi:10.1364/OE.18.015389

Subwavelength electromagnetic dynamics in stacked complementary plasmonic crystal slabs

Masanobu Iwanaga »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 18, Issue 15, pp. 15389-15398 (2010)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.18.015389

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Resonant electromagnetic fields in stacked complementary plasmonic crystal slabs (sc-PlCSs) are numerically explored in subwavelength dimensions. It is found that the local plasmon resonances in the sc-PlCSs are composite states of locally enhanced electric and magnetic fields. Two sc-PlCSs are analyzed in this paper and it is shown that each sc-PlCS realizes a resonant electromagnetic state suggested by one of Maxwell equations. It is moreover clarified that the local plasmons open efficient paths of Poynting flux, those result in high-contrast polarized transmission.

OCIS Codes
(260.2110) Physical optics : Electromagnetic optics
(260.5430) Physical optics : Polarization
(260.5740) Physical optics : Resonance
(250.5403) Optoelectronics : Plasmonics

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Physical Optics

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Original Manuscript: May 24, 2010
Revised Manuscript: June 29, 2010
Manuscript Accepted: June 29, 2010
Published: July 2, 2010

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Masanobu Iwanaga, "Subwavelength electromagnetic dynamics in stacked complementary plasmonic crystal slabs," Opt. Express 18, 15389-15398 (2010)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-18-15-15389

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[1] H. Raether, Surface Plasmons on Smooth and Rough Surfaces and on Gratings (Springer, Berlin, 1988).

[2] S. A. Maier, and H. A. Atwater, “Plasmonics: Localization and guiding of electromagnetic energy in metal/dielectric structures,” J. Appl. Phys. 98, 011101 (2005). [CrossRef]

[3] W. A. Murray, and W. L. Barnes, “Plasmonic materials,” Adv. Mater. 19, 3771–3782 (2007). [CrossRef]

[4] C. Genet, and T. W. Ebbesen, “Light in tiny holes,” Nature 445, 39–46 (2007) (and references therein). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[5] B. L. Johnson, J. T. Weiler, and R. E. Camley, “Bulk and surface plasmons and localization effects in finite superlattices,” Phys. Rev. B 32, 6544–6553 (1985) (and references therein). [CrossRef]

[6] W.-M. Que, and G. Kirczenow, “Theory of plasmons in lateral multiwire superlattices,” Phys. Rev. B 37, 7153–7156 (1988). [CrossRef]

[7] J. Valentine, S. Zhang, T. Zentgraf, E. Ulin-Avila, D. A. Genov, G. Bartal, and X. Zhang, “Three-dimensional optical metamaterial with a negative refractive index,” Nature 455, 376–380 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[8] M. Thiel, M. S. Rill, G. von Freymann, and M. Wegener, “Three-dimensional bi-chiral photonic crystals,” Adv. Mater. 21, 4680–4682 (2009). [CrossRef]

[9] J. K. Gansel, M. Thiel, M. S. Rill, M. Decker, K. Bade, V. Saile, G. von Freymann, S. Linden, and M. Wegener, “Gold helix photonic metamaterial as broadband circular polarizer,” Science 325, 1513–1515 (2009). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[10] A. V. Rogacheva, V. A. Fedotov, A. S. Schwanecke, and N. I. Zheludev, “Giant gyrotropy due to electromagnetic field coupling in a bilayered chiral structure,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 177401 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[11] N. Kanda, K. Konishi, and M. Kuwata-Gonokami, “Terahertz wave propagation rotation with double layered metal grating of complementary chiral patterns,” Opt. Express 15, 11117–11125 (2007). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[12] M. S. Rill, C. Plet, M. Thiel, I. Staude, G. von Freymann, S. Linden, and M. Wegener, “Photonic metamaterials by direct laser writing and silver chemical vapour deposition,” Nat. Mater. 7, 543–546 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[13] E. Plum, J. Zhou, J. Dong, V. A. Fedotov, T. Koschny, C. M. Soukoulis, and N. I. Zheludev, “Metamaterial with negative index due to chirality,” Phys. Rev. B 79, 035407 (2009). [CrossRef]

[14] S. Zhang, Y.-S. Park, J. Li, X. Lu, W. Zhang, and X. Zhang, “Negative refractive index in chiral metamaterials,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 023901 (2009). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[15] N. Liu, H. Liu, S. Zhu, and H. Giessen, “Sterometamaterials,” Nat. Photonics 3, 157–162 (2009). [CrossRef]

[16] M. Iwanaga, “Optically deep asymmetric one-dimensional plasmonic crystal slabs: Genetic algorithm approach,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 26, 1111–1118 (2009). [CrossRef]

[17] M. Decker, M. Ruther, C. E. Kriegler, J. Zhou, C. M. Sukoulis, S. Linden, and M. Wegener, “Strong optical activity from twisted-cross photonic metamaterials,” Opt. Lett. 34, 2501–2503 (2009). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[18] M. Iwanaga, “Subwavelength orthogonal polarization rotator,” Opt. Lett. 35, 109–111 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[19] M. Iwanaga, “Polarization-selective transmission in stacked two-dimensional complementary plasmonic crystal slabs,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 96, 083106 (2010). [CrossRef]

[20] L. Wang, S. M. Uppuluri, E. X. Jin, and X. Xu, “Nanolithography using high transmission nanoscale bowtie apertures,” Nano Lett. 6, 361–364 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[21] L. Wang, and X. Xu, “High transmission nanoscale bowtie-shaped aperture probe for near-field optical imaging,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 90, 216105 (2007).

[22] S. Kim, J. Jin, Y.-J. Kim, I.-Y. Park, Y. Kim, and S.-W. Kim, “High-harmonic generation by resonant plasmon field enhancement,” Nature 453, 757–760 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[23] H. Guo, T. P. Meyrath, T. Zentgraf, N. Liu, L. Fu, H. Schweizer, and H. Giessen, “Optical resonances of bowtie slot antennas and their geometry and material dependence,” Opt. Express 16, 7756–7766 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[24] L. Li, “New formulation of the Fourier modal method for crossed surface-relief gratings,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 14, 2758–2767 (1997). [CrossRef]

[25] L. Li, “Formulation and comparison of two recursive matrix algorithm for modeling layered diffraction gratings,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13, 1024–1035 (1996). [CrossRef]

[26] A. D. Rakić, A. B. Djurušić, J. M. Elazar, and M. L. Majewski, “Optical properties of metallic films for vertical cavity optoelectronic devices,” Appl. Opt. 37, 5271–5283 (1998). [CrossRef]

[27] COMSOL Multiphysics, http://www.comsol.com.

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