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Proceedings Article | 28 September 2007 Paper

Characterization and excitation of a nano-scaled plasmonic coupler with co-directional phase and contra-directional power flow

Yan Wang, Khalil Zeaiter, Amr Helmy, George Eleftheriades

Proceedings Volume 6638, 66380U (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.732163

KEYWORDS: Spiral phase plates, Antennas, Plasmonics, Metals, Silver, Waveguides, Dielectrics, Signal attenuation, Wave propagation, Glasses

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A nano-scaled coupled-waveguide coupler based on the guidance of surface plasmon-polaritons (SPPs) is proposed, designed and simulated at optical frequencies. The basic structure of the coupler comprises layered dielectric materials and thin silver films, which serve as two stacked nano-transmission lines to achieve broadside coupling. The key property of this design is that it operates based on the principle of contra-directional coupling between a left-handed and a right-handed guided wave, giving rise to supermodes that are characterized by complex-conjugate propagation constants (even in the absence of losses), where the attenuation constant signifies the rate of coupling instead of the conventional power dissipation. The resulting exponential attenuation along the coupler leads to dramatically reduced coupling lengths compared to previously reported co-directional SPP couplers (e.g. from millimeters to sub-microns). Given its size, the device lends itself to form the building block of a functional matrix such as a switching array in nanophotonics applications, for example. In order to verify the contra-directional coupling theory and to characterize our design, we also propose and examine several possible excitation schemes, such as using a plasmonic dipole antenna and a grating structure to excite the SPP mode. Additionally, a measurement topology utilizing a curved plasmonic waveguide is also presented in this paper.

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