Circular motion of electromagnetic power shaping the dispersion of Surface Plasmon Polaritons

doi:10.1364/OE.18.025861

Circular motion of electromagnetic power shaping the dispersion of Surface Plasmon Polaritons

Gilad Rosenblatt, Eyal Feigenbaum, and Meir Orenstein »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 18, Issue 25, pp. 25861-25872 (2010)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.18.025861

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Abstract

A circular zero-time-averaged power component, coupling the forward (dielectric) and backward (metal) power channels of Surface Plasmon Polaritons (SPPs), is shown to be the core ingredient for the slow-light characteristic of SPPs at the surface plasmon frequency, for both a lossless and lossy metal. Additional slow-light regimes emerging in configurations where few SPPs are strongly coupled, such as in a narrow plasmonic gap and slab, forming local extrema of the dispersion curve (branch points for positive and negative index branches), are also propelled by the circular motion of the plasmonic power.

OCIS Codes
(240.6680) Optics at surfaces : Surface plasmons
(350.4238) Other areas of optics : Nanophotonics and photonic crystals

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Optics at Surfaces

History
Original Manuscript: August 23, 2010
Revised Manuscript: October 22, 2010
Manuscript Accepted: October 28, 2010
Published: November 25, 2010

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Gilad Rosenblatt, Eyal Feigenbaum, and Meir Orenstein, "Circular motion of electromagnetic power shaping the dispersion of Surface Plasmon Polaritons," Opt. Express 18, 25861-25872 (2010)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-18-25-25861

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J. Appl. Phys.

A. A. Oliner and T. Tamir, “Backward waves on Isotropic Plasma Slabs,” J. Appl. Phys. 33(1), 231–233 (1962). [CrossRef]

JLT

E. Feigenbaum and M. Orenstein, “Modeling of Complementary (Void) Plasmon Waveguiding,” JLT 25, 2547–2562 (2007).

Nat. Mater.

S. P. Burgos, R. de Waele, A. Polman, and H. A. Atwater, “A single-layer wide-angle negative-index metamaterial at visible frequencies,” Nat. Mater. 9(5), 407–412 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Nat. Photonics

V. M. Shalaev, “Optical negative-index metamaterials,” Nat. Photonics 1(1), 41–48 (2007). [CrossRef]
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Nature

K. L. Tsakmakidis, A. D. Boardman, and O. Hess, “‘Trapped rainbow’ storage of light in metamaterials,” Nature 450(7168), 397–401 (2007). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
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Opt. Express

E. Feigenbaum, N. Kaminski, and M. Orenstein, “Negative dispersion: a backward wave or fast light? Nanoplasmonic examples,” Opt. Express 17(21), 18934–18939 (2009). [CrossRef]

Opt. Lett.

A. Yariv, Y. Xu, R. K. Lee, and A. Scherer, “Coupled-resonator optical waveguide: a proposal and analysis,” Opt. Lett. 24(11), 711–713 (1999). [CrossRef]

Phys. Rev.

R. H. Ritchie, “Plasma Losses by Fast Electrons in Thin Films,” Phys. Rev. 106(5), 874–881 (1957). [CrossRef]

Phys. Rev. B

G. Shvets, “Photonic approach to making a material with a negative index of refraction,” Phys. Rev. B 67(3), 035109 (2003). [CrossRef]

Phys. Rev. Lett.

M. I. Stockman, “Nanofocusing of optical energy in tapered plasmonic waveguides,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 93(13), 137404 (2004). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
H. T. Miyazaki and Y. Kurokawa, “Squeezing visible light waves into a 3-nm-thick and 55-nm-long plasmon cavity,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 96(9), 097401 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
E. Feigenbaum and M. Orenstein, “Ultrasmall volume plasmons, yet with complete retardation effects,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 101(16), 163902 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
A. A. Govyadinov and V. A. Podolskiy, “Gain-assisted slow to superluminal group velocity manipulation in nanowaveguides,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 97(22), 223902 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
H. Shin and S. Fan, “All-angle negative refraction for surface plasmon waves using a metal-dielectric-metal structure,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 96(7), 073907 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
M. Notomi, K. Yamada, A. Shinya, J. Takahashi, C. Takahashi, and I. Yokohama, “Extremely large group-velocity dispersion of line-defect waveguides in photonic crystal slabs,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 87(25), 253902 (2001). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Proc. IEEE

T. Tamir and A. A. Oliner, “The Spectrum of Electromagnetic Waves Guided by a Plasma Layer,” Proc. IEEE 51(2), 317–332 (1963). [CrossRef]

Science

H. J. Lezec, J. A. Dionne, and H. A. Atwater, “Negative refraction at visible frequencies,” Science 316(5823), 430–432 (2007). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
G. Dolling, C. Enkrich, M. Wegener, C. M. Soukoulis, and S. Linden, “Simultaneous negative phase and group velocity of light in a metamaterial,” Science 312(5775), 892–894 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Other

M. Orenstein, “Slow Light by Slow Waves: Plasmonics for Light Halting,” Topical Meeting on Slow and Fast Light 2007, Salt-Lake City Utah, USA (2007).

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