Confinement and optical properties of the plasmonic inverse-rib waveguide - Institut d'Optique Graduate School
Journal Articles Journal of the Optical Society of America B Year : 2012

Confinement and optical properties of the plasmonic inverse-rib waveguide

Abstract

Plasmonic inverse-rib optical waveguides, consisting of a high-index inverse rib embedded in low-index medium above a flat metallic surface, are investigated under four aspects: (i) the optimal angle θ of the rib sidewall for tight modal confinement is assessed, (ii) the effect of the geometric parameters and the wavelength on propagation losses is given, (iii) we use a 3D simulation to assess how well light from an emitting dipole is captured by such a tightly guiding structure, and (iv) we show that for two such parallel hybrid waveguiding systems, when one of them has added gain, we have a plasmonic version of the PT-symmetric waveguide arrangement, and we additionally show that complex gain is needed to restore a truly exceptional point in its propagation constant evolution.
Fichier principal
Vignette du fichier
00683901.pdf (827.5 Ko) Télécharger le fichier
Origin Publisher files allowed on an open archive
Loading...

Dates and versions

hal-00683901 , version 1 (19-02-2013)

Identifiers

  • HAL Id : hal-00683901 , version 1

Cite

Henri Benisty, Mondher Besbes. Confinement and optical properties of the plasmonic inverse-rib waveguide. Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 2012, 29 (4), pp.818-826. ⟨hal-00683901⟩
155 View
443 Download

Share

More