Modeling of a surface plasmon polariton interferometer |
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Authors: | Victor Coello Thomas Sndergaard Sergey I Bozhevolnyi |
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Institution: | aCICESE Unidad Monterrey, Pedro de Alba S/N Posgrado FCFM-UANL, C.P. 66450 San Nicolas des los Garza Nuevo Leon, Mexico bMicro Managed Photons A/S, Department of Physics and Nanotechnology, Aalborg University, Pontoppidanstræde 103, DK-9220 Aalborg Øst, Denmark |
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Abstract: | We model the operation of a micro-optical interferometer for surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) that comprises an SPP beam-splitter formed by equivalent scatterers lined up and equally spaced. The numerical calculations are carried out by using a relatively simple vectorial dipolar model for multiple SPP scattering Phys. Rev. B 67 (2003) 165405]. The SPP beam-splitter is simulated elucidating the influence of system parameters, such as the angle of SPP beam incidence, scattering particle size, and inter-particle distance, on the splitting efficiency and phase difference between the transmitted and reflected beams. It is found that the splitting efficiency is very sensitive to the size of scatterers and angle of incidence. Comparing our simulations with experimental data available in the literature, we conclude that this approach can be used, with certain limitations, for modelling of SPP components assembled of individual scatterers, e.g., beam-splitters and interferometers, and suggest further improvements of the model used. |
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Keywords: | Surface plasmon polaritons Nanostructures |
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