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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
