Numerical investigation of series connection of nanoshells in plasmon waveguide

Author

Yuan-Fong Chau ; Shinn-Fwu Wang ; Yi Chu ; Jeng-Hua Wei ; Yang, Weiguo ; Yuh-Sien Sun

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chien Hsin Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Zhongli, Taiwan

fYear

2012

Firstpage

75

Lastpage

78

Abstract

A two-dimensional plasmon waveguide in the form of rows of silver-shell nanorods distributed in a hexagonal lattice is proposed and compared to the solid-silver case. Transport of energy flow due to surface plasmon coupling is investigated using finite element method for visible range wavelengths. The proposed waveguide is divided into several sections with each section consisting of ten nanorods. Results show that the waveguide energy flow exhibits long-ranging propagation (>8 μm or more) by using series connection of each section, which plays the major role in coupling between them.

Keywords

finite element analysis; nanophotonics; optical waveguides; plasmonics; energy flow transport; finite element method; hexagonal lattice; long ranging propagation; nanoshells; series connection; surface plasmon coupling; two dimensional plasmon waveguide; visible range wavelength; plasmon waveguide; silver-shell nanorods;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN), 2012 11th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chonburi

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4957-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-4958-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICOCN.2012.6486219

Filename

6486219