A hybrid plasmonic waveguide, consisting of two dielectric nanowires symmetrically put at the opposite corner angles of a rhombic metM, is proposed and numerically analyzed by the finite-element method. Simulations sh...A hybrid plasmonic waveguide, consisting of two dielectric nanowires symmetrically put at the opposite corner angles of a rhombic metM, is proposed and numerically analyzed by the finite-element method. Simulations show that the present waveguide can achieve the millimeter propagation distance （1244 μm） and deep subwavelength mode area （5.5 × 10-3 μm2）, simultaneously. Compared with the previous hybrid waveguides based on cylinder nanowires or fiat films, the rhombie corner angles enable our waveguide to achieve both longer propagation distance and smaller mode area. This is due to the enhanced coupling between the dielectric guided mode in nanowires and the surface plasmon polariton mode at rhombic surface. Furthermore, the extreme confinement near the rhombic corner angles can strengthen the light-matter interaction greatly and make the present waveguide useful in many applications, such as nonlinear photonics, high-quality nanolazers and nanophotonic waveguides.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No 11374041, the National Basic Research Program of China under Grant No 2010CB923202, and the Fund of State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications of Bei]ing University of Posts and Telecommunications.
文摘A hybrid plasmonic waveguide, consisting of two dielectric nanowires symmetrically put at the opposite corner angles of a rhombic metM, is proposed and numerically analyzed by the finite-element method. Simulations show that the present waveguide can achieve the millimeter propagation distance （1244 μm） and deep subwavelength mode area （5.5 × 10-3 μm2）, simultaneously. Compared with the previous hybrid waveguides based on cylinder nanowires or fiat films, the rhombie corner angles enable our waveguide to achieve both longer propagation distance and smaller mode area. This is due to the enhanced coupling between the dielectric guided mode in nanowires and the surface plasmon polariton mode at rhombic surface. Furthermore, the extreme confinement near the rhombic corner angles can strengthen the light-matter interaction greatly and make the present waveguide useful in many applications, such as nonlinear photonics, high-quality nanolazers and nanophotonic waveguides.
