Title :
Perfect 4-way Plasmon Splitting in Cross Gap Waveguides Intersection
Author :
Feigenbaum, Eyal ; Orenstein, Meir
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Technion, Haifa
Abstract :
Plasmon propagating in gap waveguide, when encountering waveguide intersection, is uniformly split into the 4 arms of the cross. This is substantially different from dielectric waveguides case where power coupling to vertical segments is negligible
Keywords :
optical couplers; optical waveguides; surface plasmons; cross gap waveguides intersection; dielectric waveguides; perfect 4-way plasmon splitting; plasmon propagation; power coupling; Arm; Coupling circuits; Dielectrics; Electromagnetic waveguides; Magnetic fields; Optical surface waves; Optical waveguides; Plasmons; Surface waves; Waveguide discontinuities;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2006. LEOS 2006. 19th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Montreal, Que.
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9555-7
Electronic_ISBN :
0-7803-9555-7
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2006.278864
