Title :
Aperture-coupled plasmonic ring resonators with submicron bending radii
Author :
Han, Z. ; Van, V. ; Herman, W.N. ; Ho, P.-T.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Abstract :
We propose and investigate ultracompact aperture-coupled metallic ring resonators with submicron radii based on strongly-confined plasmonic waveguides. Simulations showed 500 nm-radius ring resonators can be obtained with low insertion loss and modal volume of only 0.085(lambda0/neff)3.
Keywords :
optical couplers; optical losses; optical resonators; plasmonics; aperture-coupled plasmonic ring resonators; confined plasmonic waveguides; insertion loss; modal volume; radius 500 nm; submicron bending radii; Apertures; Light scattering; Optical resonators; Optical ring resonators; Optical scattering; Optical waveguides; Particle scattering; Plasmons; Propagation losses; Resonance light scattering; (230.5750) Resonators; (240.6680) Surface plasmons; (250.5403) Plasmonics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-869-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-869-8
