• DocumentCode
    2269901
  • Title

    Deep sub-wavelength confinement in Metal-dielectric multilayers

  • Author

    Bartal, Guy ; Lerosey, Geoffroy ; Liu, Yongmin ; Genov, Dentcho A. ; Zhang, Xiang

  • Author_Institution
    NSF Nanoscale Sci. & Eng. Center (NSEC), California Univ., Berkeley, CA
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    4-9 May 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We present linear and nonlinear deep sub-wavelength confinement in metal-dielectric periodic nano-structures. The strong anisotropy supports the propagation of modes with very large transverse momentum, enabling confinement size limited only by the structure periodicity.
  • Keywords
    nanostructured materials; optical multilayers; photonic crystals; deep sub-wavelength confinement; metal-dielectric multilayers; structure periodicity; Anisotropic magnetoresistance; Dielectrics; Diffraction; Interference; Nonhomogeneous media; Optical waveguides; Phased arrays; Propagation constant; Slabs; Solitons; 190.4420 Nonlinear optics, transverse effects in; 350.4238 Nanophotonics and photonic crystals;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-859-9
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    4572979