Title :
Gapped surface plasmon polariton waveguides
Author :
Dong Hun Lee ; Jung-Han Son ; Myung-Hyun Lee
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Sungkyunkwan Univ., Suwon, South Korea
Abstract :
We investigate coupling losses in gapped surface plasmon polariton waveguides for compact plasmonic devices. Coupling losses in insulator-metal-insulator waveguides with various gaps of upto 8 μm are less than 0.05 dB.
Keywords :
metal-insulator boundaries; optical couplers; optical losses; optical waveguides; polaritons; surface plasmons; compact plasmonic devices; coupling losses; gapped surface plasmon polariton waveguides; insulator-metal-insulator waveguides; Couplings; Materials; Optical waveguides; Plasmons; Propagation losses; Waveguide discontinuities;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fibre Technology, 2014 OptoElectronics and Communication Conference and Australian Conference on
Conference_Location :
Melbourne, VIC
