Tunable coupling of a hybrid plasmonic waveguide consisting of two identical dielectric cylinders and a silver film |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Physics, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China;2. Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China |
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Abstract: | The propagation length of surface plasmon polaritons(SPPs) is intrinsically limited by the metallic ohmic loss that is enhanced by the strongly confined electromagnetic field. In this paper, we propose a new class of hybrid plasmonic waveguides(HPWs) that can support long-range SPP propagation while keeping subwavelength optical field confinement. It is shown that the coupling between the waveguides can be well tuned by simply varying the structural parameters. Compared with conventional HPWs, a larger propagation length as well as a better optical field confinement can be simultaneously realized. The proposed structure with better optical performance can be useful for future photonic device design and optical integration research. |
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Keywords: | surface plasmon polaritons hybrid plasmonic waveguide optical field confinement |
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