Dielectric Resonator Nanoantenna Coupled to Metallic Coplanar Waveguide

Author

Malheiros-Silveira, Gilliard N. ; Hernandez-Figueroa, Hugo E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Commun., Univ. of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil

Volume

7

Issue

1

fYear

2015

fDate

Feb. 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

A proposal about a dielectric resonator nanoantenna applied to couple optical beams to a surface plasmon coplanar waveguide (SP CPW), and vice versa, was theoretically investigated. The effects of this device operating in optical frequencies were studied, taking into account the central frequency of the conventional optical communication spectrum (C-band). Numerical results show that this proposal is interesting in that it couples an optical beam with an SP CPW with a good reflection coefficient, gain, and broadside radiation pattern.

Keywords

coplanar waveguides; dielectric resonator antennas; laser beams; metamaterial antennas; microwave photonics; nanophotonics; optical resonators; optical waveguides; surface plasmon resonance; C-band; SP CPW; broadside radiation pattern; conventional optical communication spectrum; dielectric resonator nanoantenna; gain; metallic coplanar waveguide; optical beams; optical frequencies; reflection coefficient; surface plasmon coplanar waveguide; Coplanar waveguides; Dielectrics; Dispersion; Indexes; Metals; Optical resonators; Optical waveguides; Nanoantennas; Optical resonators; Plasmonics; dielectric resonator; optical resonators; plasmonics;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Journal, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1943-0655

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JPHOT.2015.2399353

Filename

7031423