Title :
2D photonic band gap cavities embedded in a plasmonic gap structure- zero modal volume?
Author :
Ginzburg, Pavel ; Feigenbaum, Eyal ; Orenstein, Meir
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Technion-Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa
Abstract :
Inserting a 2D dielectric photonic band gap cavity structure between nano-spaced plasmonic metal plates enables confinement of light with no apparent lower bound to the modal volume and to radiation losses in the vertical direction
Keywords :
metallic thin films; photonic band gap; surface plasmons; 2D photonic band gap cavities; modal volume; plasmonic gap; plasmonic metal plates; Dielectric losses; Nanostructures; Nonlinear optics; Optical losses; Optical scattering; Optical sensors; Photonic band gap; Plasmons; Propagation constant; Slabs;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2005. LEOS 2005. The 18th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9217-5
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2005.1548043
