• DocumentCode
    2251702
  • Title

    Critical coupling requirements for surface plasmon enhanced magneto-optic isolators

  • Author

    Summers, Joseph A. ; Ram, Rajeev J.

  • Author_Institution
    Res. Lab. of Electron., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    1-6 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    The critical coupling criteria between dielectric waveguides and lossy surface plasmons is applied to isolator designs. This framework shows that non-reciprocal plasmon-semiconductor waveguides are not achievable, and alternatives are proposed.
  • Keywords
    magneto-optical isolators; optical couplers; optical design techniques; optical waveguides; polaritons; surface plasmons; critical coupling; dielectric waveguides; lossy surface plasmons; nonreciprocal plasmon-semiconductor waveguides; surface plasmon enhanced magneto-optic isolator design; Couplings; Iron; Optical imaging; Optical polarization; Optical waveguides; Semiconductor waveguides;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1223-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5951086
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2251702