• DocumentCode
    2712136
  • Title

    Squeezing THz waves below λ/250 using plasmonic parallel-plate waveguides

  • Author

    Zhan, Hui ; Mendis, Rajind ; Mittleman, Daniel M.

  • Author_Institution
    ECE Dept., Rice Univ., Houston, TX, USA
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    5-10 Sept. 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    By adiabatically tapering the width and the plate separation of a parallel-plate waveguide, we experimentally demonstrate THz confinement down to a spot-size of 10 μm (≈λ/260) by 18 μm (≈λ/145), which corresponds to a mode area of only 2.6×10-5 λ2.
  • Keywords
    parallel plate waveguides; plasmonics; terahertz waves; THz confinement; THz waves; plasmonic parallel-plate waveguides; plate separation; Metals; Optical device fabrication; Optical pulses; Optical waveguides; Plasmons; Probes; Spatial resolution;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Infrared Millimeter and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz), 2010 35th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Rome
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-6655-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICIMW.2010.5612564
  • Filename
    5612564
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2712136