Surface plasmon polariton waves in optically active media

Author

Ignatyeva, Daria O. ; Levkina, Galina Yu ; Kalish, Andrey N. ; Sukhorukov, Anatoly P.

Author_Institution

M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State Univ., Moscow, Russia

fYear

2011

fDate

5-9 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We investigate surface plasmon polariton waves on the semi-infinite and multilayered interfaces of metals or metamaterials with optically active dielectrics. Such surface waves consist of two partial components with different polarization and localization. Propagation constant, localization coefficients and polarization of surface waves were calculated in the linear approximation that can be used in the cases of weak gyrotropy. Plasmon polariton waves on the interfaces with stronger gyrotropy were investigated numerically. We found out that there is a critical value of gyrotropic coefficient above which there are no localized surface waves on the interface.

Keywords

dielectric polarisation; gold; metamaterials; optical rotation; polaritons; silver; surface plasmons; wave propagation; Au-Ag; dielectric polarization; gold; linear approximation; localization coefficient; metal-dielectric interface; metamaterials; multilayered interfaces; optically active dielectrics; propagation constant; silver; surface plasmon polariton waves; weak gyrotropy; Dielectrics; Media; Metals; Metamaterials; Optical polarization; Optical surface waves; Surface waves;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Laser and Fiber-Optical Networks Modeling (LFNM), 2011 11th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kharkov

ISSN

Pending

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-811-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LFNM.2011.6145028

Filename

6145028